"I have that feeling of imminent doom. We have a 7,000-acre fire in our backyard and another one burning over there. I almost feel like I’m in the alligator’s mouth and I’m not able to control this beast.”
-- Lizzy Falcon, an artist who lives between two fingers of the wildfire burning at Tate City, in the North Georgia mountains.
"They put me in a box and bury me. If you don’t believe in heaven, then you don’t believe in hell. It kind of balances out.”
-- Steven W. Spears, quoted by the psychiatrist who interviewed him the day before Spears was executed on Georgia's death row, on whether there's an afterlife.
"We'll fight till hell freezes over. And then we'll fight on the ice."
-- Mayoral candidate Vincent Fort, protesting the city's plans for a neighborhood south of Turner Field.
"I cried several times last night. I cried for all the people whose stories we got to shine a light on for new generations. I cried for all the comic creators whose shoulders we stood on and I cried for my mom, who was a single parent. I’m grateful for all the things she went through to make sure I went to school and had all the opportunities that she never did.”
-- Andrew Aydin, co-author with U.S. Rep. John Lewis of the graphic novel "March: Book 3," which won the National Book Award for young people's literature.
Credit: John Carrington
Credit: John Carrington
“It was quite intense in those moments. Four grown men in prayer. In tears. It was something I’ll never forget.”
-- Maddox Kilgore, lead defense attorney in the Ross Harris murder case, on the defense team's meeting with Harris after the guilty verdict was announced.
"Freedom is a meaningless concept if it does not apply to all beliefs, even the ones, especially the ones, you do not share."
-- State Senate President Pro Tem David Shafer, criticizing a bill that would have barred women from wearing burqas on public property in Georgia. The bill was withdrawn after a storm of criticism from both sides of the aisle.
