8 Quotes & Sayings By Elizabeth Brundage

Elizabeth Brundage is the author of several books of political nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed The Death of the Liberal Class (2013) and A Nation on Fire: America in the Age of Obama (2015), winner of the 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award. She holds a doctorate in American history from Yale University.

Her mother had told her that when she was a...
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Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend. Elizabeth Brundage
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Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore. Elizabeth Brundage
Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible
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Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible Elizabeth Brundage
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As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on. Elizabeth Brundage
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You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't. Elizabeth Brundage
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Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper. Elizabeth Brundage
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It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it Elizabeth Brundage