Jeff Shaara

His father’s words came to him now, the admonition he gave to all of his children. I hesitate to say something favorable, because a sugar diet is not good for you.

His mind focused on that one page in his diary, written the day after the horror of their deaths, that one entry, dark and scribbled: the light has gone out of my life. I wasn’t wrong then, he thought. It is just … a different light now.

Bolting a party is the worst treason in politics. In Chicago, and to this young snake in Saint Paul, I tried to explain … even though explaining is a deadly sin