“ [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?[ Salman Rushdie
“ You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it… Rachel Reiland
“ We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised awesome in a week of scripted blah. But because it advanced our understanding. This presi… Jon Stewart
“ Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad. George R.R. Martin
“ No, I was an odder old fool, grafting pathetic hopes of affection onto the least likely recipient in the world. Julian Barnes
“ It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd mad… Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell
“ Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine. Jim Butcher
“ In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. Ishmael Beah
“ I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love, he said. That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because y… Jennifer Ashley
“ He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. Markus Zusak
“ Grinning, I stroked his arms, over the tattoos and muscles. Today has been fucking perfect, Judd. You can’t know how perfect. Oh, I know. I’ve been counting my blessings since the moment I woke up wit… Bijou Hunter
“ Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more… Susan Sontag
