"To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule."

“...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.”

“Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.”

“No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.”

Source : Linh Dinh (2017). “Postcards from the End of America”, p.41, Seven Stories Press

“Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.”

“I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."”

“Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.”

“Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.”

Source : "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

“Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.”