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“No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon.”
― Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

“In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return.”
― Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they had clung to life only here, up in these high altitudes where the mountains, ice and wind ensured that the Lebanese who so often took the name of the cedars in vain would rarely appear.”
― Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

“The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?”
― Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

“He’d found the virgin, the sacrificial lamb, and in a way he was obsessed with me.”
― Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

“For all their privileges, their legions of servants, their chauffeur-driven cars, private yachts and planes, they are prisoners of society’s expectations and puppets of the system.”
― Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

“so many issues and problems in a male dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego.”
― Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

“The fact that the Princess of Wales, a major international figure, and the BBC, a leading public broadcasting company, had to go to such extraordinary lengths to record an interview makes a mockery of the notion that we live in an open society. Indeed, if the programme had been the smuggled testimony of a Middle Eastern princess there would have been outraged protests about a repressive regime.”
― Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

“For as long as there are poets, playwrights and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who died across the water and returned home to be crowned a queen, the queen of all our hearts.”
― Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

“They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. ”
― Isabel Allende, Zorro

“Love is a condition that tends to cloud men’s reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey”
― Isabel Allende, Zorro

“They would regret that they had not killed him; he would get out of that hole and find Juliana sooner or later, even if he had to pursue her to hell itself. “Oh, you won’t have to go that far, we are on our way to California," Diego said in farewell”
― Isabel Allende, Zorro

“When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon, then held it up to reveal she had punched out holes for the stars and the moon. 'And then there was light', she said…”
― Christopher Andersen, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

“Daddy,” said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, “you are a poo-poo head!”

Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. “John,” he said, “no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.”
― Christopher Andersen, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

“He is perhaps fifteen—not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way—and he walks with the energy and indifference of one who possesses the luxury of youth but not yet the experience to appreciate its value or evanescence.”
― John Burley, The Absence of Mercy

“All experienced murderers seek cover. By putting the Agency’s fingerprints on [Mafia] operations, the mob could anticipate that the CIA would [be forced to] cooperate in the cover-up of crucial information related to JFK's assassination”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded in retaliation, just to make Lyndon Johnson President.”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

“Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

“By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have to cover up much information to protect the coup plan—which is exactly what happened”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“When you were young you talked about ‘falling in love’ with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“It’s the question mark that comes with death that we can’t face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“He doesn’t look people in the eye. He says that’s how someone can steal your soul.

Amen to that.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we’d rather pretend doesn’t exist.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller