"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"

“It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.”

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”

Source : Sarra Manning (2011). “You Don't Have to Say You Love Me”, p.241, Random House

“Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.”

“When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.”

“No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.”

Source : Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

“Nothing is more beautiful and romantic than when provision and purpose kiss.”

“And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.”

“Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.”

Source : Michael Savage (2013). “A Time for War: A Thriller”, p.44, Macmillan