"I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.”
“And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.”

Source : "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.
“People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.”
“The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.”

Source : "Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence". www.irishtimes.com. August 14, 1999.
“The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.”
“No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.”
“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”

Source : Michael Kroeger, Paul Rand (2008). “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students”, p.62, Princeton Architectural Press
“Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.”

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