"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

“But facts are facts and flinch not.”

“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.”

“I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.”

“Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.37, Penguin

“The U.K. really is made up of four nations that never really became one.”

Source : "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

“There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.”

“I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.”

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist.”