"There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers."

“Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.”

“I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.”

“There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.”

“Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago.”

“If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.”

“Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan

“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.”

Source : "Faces of Depression: Andrew Solomon". PBS interview, www.pbs.org.

“Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.”