On the inauguration: "Then it was done and he was our President.

"That was some weird shit," George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn't have agreed more."

This was hard to read, emotionally speaking. Every day I sat down to get through a chapter of this memoir, I would get a twitter alert or a news update about the most recent atrocity Trump had perpetuated or helped create.

On losing: "I wear my composure like a suit of armor, for better or worse. In some ways, it felt like I had been training for this latest feat of self-control for decades."

I think about this line a lot.