"We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle."

“Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.”

“I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.”

Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

“Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.”

“I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.”

“Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.”

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

Source : Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.156, Penguin

“And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.”

Source : "Our outsourced lives". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.salon.com. August 15, 2012.