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“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”
Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications
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“Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together cannot be defeated: militarily, economically or morally.”
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“The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react”
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“I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!”
Source : "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 566), 2002.
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“I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.”
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“Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.”
Source : "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.
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“Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.”