“Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.”
“We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.”
“They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.”
“People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered,"I love you”
“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”
“In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.”