"Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies."

“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”

“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.”

“Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.”

“On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

“Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars”

“When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.”

“In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan

“Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.”