“This is me before I come undone. This is me before I fall apart. I've been tired for days and days. I've been tired for days and days.”

“I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.”

“Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.”

“We examine each day before us with barely a glance and say, no, this isn't the one I've been looking for.”

“I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.”

“One day. One damn day since I talked with Hayles. I've never been more happy for a Monday.”