Top Highlights

• Transfers of power, of course, are rarely smooth.
• ‘There is a scent of something in the air, a smell like rainfall after a long drought. First one person, then five, then five hundred, then villages, then cities, then states. Bud to bud and leaf to leaf. Something new is happening. The scale of the thing has increased.’
• ‘that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night. They are the ones who should be afraid.’
• it. He reads online forums where men say that if all the men in the world had one everything would be back the way it ought to be.
• Pain and fear. These things whittle away control.