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1 " The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The party system is a grid, a filter, a meat chopper, through which issues are processed for the consuming public. The Civil War confirmed our preference for this arrangement. We like the fog of politics, with the occasional drama of the flash of a lightning bolt that, happily, is usually nothing more than a near miss. "
― Robert Penn Warren , The Legacy of the Civil War
2 " As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. "
― Julio Cortázar , Hopscotch
3 " As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert. "
4 " Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM! "
― Megan McCafferty , Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling, #1)
5 " Truth be told, there wasn't a single one of them who didn't deserve a lightning bolt from the Almighty. Everything else was straight mercy. "
― Mike Duran , The Telling
