Misha Savelli

“In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“You just hang onto the thought that every dog has its day, even the bitches”
― Colleen McCullough, The Ladies of Missalonghi

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn