"Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book."

-- Gaylene Preston

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“It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.”
“You have to close quickly, you have to eliminate time and space and you have to try to deny them the puck. When you're playing with it, it forces them out of their rhythm and forces them to play defense, which they obviously don't want to do.”

Source : Chris Pronger during NHL Stanley Cup Finals: Flyers v Blackhawks Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. May 30, 2010.
“You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.”
“Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.”
“Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.”
“At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.”
“You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.”

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