Andrew Shaffer > Quotes

“Copy editors tended to be lone wolves. Probably because whenever you cornered one, you could tell they were silently judging your grammar.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa

“Saying goodbye to the living was hard enough; saying goodbye to the dead was an impossible task.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We could swing by, just for a bite. I haven’t had anything since lunch. I’m so hungry I could eat the balls off a low-flying goose.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Is this heaven?” “No,” Barack said. “It’s Iowa.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Whoever she was, she wasn’t selling Girl Scout cookies. They only sell them January through March.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The White House’s daily self-inflicted crisis du jour left little room for stories not originating from Twitter tantrums.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“As long as you have hope,” he said, repeating his words from that day, “you’re still in the game.” “And when you lose it?” I asked, echoing a field organizer’s question. “You can’t lose it. Hope never dies.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“If we’re not out of here within ten minutes, two dozen trained killers are going to bust in here and shoot this place up like they’ve got video-game cheat codes. Am I making myself clear?”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“getting older sucked eggs.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“There was a nervous energy in the air. Barack’s return to his hometown—and to public life—had been slow. We’d both spent the first year out of office sitting on the sidelines, watching the news while sitting on our hands. It was like selling your house and seeing the buyer chop down every tree you’d planted.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“This whole “going from one bar to another” made no sense to me. Didn’t they serve the same beer at every bar? What were they chasing?”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“There were thick steel bars on the lower-level windows of every residence. It seemed like a nightmare way to live your life, always peering out from behind bars like you were a prisoner in your own home. The houses couldn’t have been cheap, but each one was a prison. A multimillion-dollar prison.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“Joe,” Barack said, “if I hear one more story about your weird 1930s all-boys prep school, I’m going to lose it. We’re going to have quiet time. Whoever can stay silent the longest gets two scoops of chocolate-chip ice cream.” “And a waffle cone?” “And a waffle cone,” he said. “We start now.” “If you think I can’t shut up for five minutes, then—” “You’re still talking.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“I don't think that you've failed. I've been in this game longer than you. You've got to have patience. It takes more than eight years to build a legacy --and it takes more than a term or two to reshape the world. Change happens incrementally.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“If Lussi had learned anything from Shirley Jackson, it was to be wary of condiments in the homes of strangers.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa

“Martin Luther King Jr. said the moral arc of the universe was long and bent toward the side of justice.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The truth I could see with my own eyes was the only truth I trusted these days. “Truth” had somehow become subjective.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“Trump pulled his feet off the desk and invited Jimmie to follow him. “C’mon. Let’s get some exercise.” As they exited the Oval Office, they passed a Secret Service agent. “Humble is on the move,” the agent said, speaking into his wrist. “Humble is on the move.”
― Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America

“This was going to make for one fascinating OSHA report”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa

“it wouldn’t last forever. Nothing does. Not even grief. The first year after you’ve lost someone is the most painful, but the second year is excruciating in its own way. The grief fades, and it’s only on birthdays, and anniversaries, and holidays that you realize you’ve become accustomed to their absence. That you don’t think about them every day.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“A couple of years back, she’d switched to electronic books. Said she liked being able to adjust the size of the type, even though she missed all the shirtless men on the book covers. I could laugh along with this little joke, because I certainly didn’t feel threatened. See, your Uncle Joe had something those men would never have: a Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“I knew a little something about living under a microscope. Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's easy to start believing you were somehow to blame.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Trouble was, no amount of shelving would ever be enough. She worked in publishing - when she returned home and brushed her hair, books tumbled out.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa