In cold blood - Truman Capote

"Of all the people in the world, the Clutters were the least likely to be murdered."

"There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't tay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin;
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gipsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new."

"A belief in God and the rituals surrounding that belief - church every Sunday, grace before meals, prayers before bed - were an important part of the Deweys'existence. "I don't see how anyone can sit down to table without wanting to bless it," Mrs Dewey once said. "Sometimes, when I come home from work - well, I'm tired. But there's always coffee on the stove, and sometimes a steak in the icebox. The boys make a fire to cook the steak, and we talk, and tell each other our day, and by the time supper's ready I know we have good cause to be happy and grateful. so I say, thank you, Lord. Not just because I should - because I want to."

"On their last night in acapulco, a thief had stolen the Guibson guitar. Perry was bitter about it. He felt, he later said, "real mean and low", explaining, "You have a guitar long enough, like I had that one, wax and shine it, fit your voice to it, treat it like it was a girl you really had some use for - well it gets to be kind of holy".

"It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat."

"Because God made you as well as me and He loves you just as He loves me, and for the little we know of God's will, what happened to you could have happened to me."

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

"His personal dictionary, a non-alphabetically listed miscellany of words he believed "beautiful" or "useful", or at least, "worth memorizing". (Sample page: thanatoid = deathlike; omnilingual = versed in languages; amerce = punishment, amount fixed by Court; nescient = ignorance; facinorous = atrociously wicked...)"

L'enfer de Matignon - Raphaëlle Bacqué

"Je sais que c'est un grand thème de gémissements de ceux qui ont été premier ministre. N'est-ce pas, à les entendres, la mission la plus difficile au monde? Il faut vraiment une âme d'apôtre, sinon même de martyr pour accepter de jouer un rôle pareil. Moyennant quoi, je n'ai jamais entendu dire que qui que ce soit ait refusé de l'être." Edouard Balladur