Notable and quotable

“We could feel your love all the way in North Korea. It is what kept us going in the darkest of hours, and it is what sustained our faith that we would come home.”

Laura Ling

Shortly after she and Euna Lee reunited with family in Burbank, Calif., after months of being imprisoned in North Korea.

“Women just don’t like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US (my estimate) and I cannot find one. Not one of them finds me attractive.”

George Sodini

The 48-year-old computer programmer who opened fire at a Pennsylvania fitness club, wrote in an online diary. He killed three women and wounded nine others before committing suicide.