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“in art your limitations are also your strengths. What you’re not good at, what you can’t think of, even the mistakes you make all contribute to your personal style. To have no such constraints is to be shapeless, she said, and to have no voice. This dictum helped explain Kay’s growing identity crisis.”
― Lionel Shriver, Should We Stay or Should We Go

“He was a harassed-looking, barrel-chested bear of a man with a shaved head and a beard so wild that it looked like it could have concealed the corpses of several small animals. His eyes, a pair of bored, piggish slits, emanated sourness so intractable that I doubt even winning the lottery would’ve made him happy.”
― Jasper DeWitt, The Patient

“Commander," she said, "this is a very important story to get out. The world really needs to know what's happening here in Syria. We can't just sit by and watch murder take place. The world desperately needs to see what's happening inside Baba Amr. Please, if you don't take us in, then this carnage will slip past into history. Assad can crush you right now. You need people to see this. People will listen to me and they will see Paul's pictures. We can help: we can show the world; we can bear witness." p85”
― Paul Conroy, Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment

“To be amongst these majestic creatures as they go calmly about their day is an extraordinary privilege and joy.”
― Françoise Malby-Anthony, The Elephants of Thula Thula