"I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind."

“A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.”

“That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.”

“Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.”

Source : "Together we can beat the gangs" by Iain Duncan Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

“Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.”

Source : Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

“We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.”

“Every game I played was a bonus.”

“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”