Quotes of the week

“Life is precious and beautiful.”
Former Fontana parish priest urging the Farrugia family, which lost five family members in a fireworks’ explosion, not to despair.

“People who enter do so at their own risk.”
An army spokesman warning curious passers-by that the site where the Farrugia Brothers’ fireworks factory stood was not safe.

“I thought the captain was trying to sail through a gap.”
Patrick Meli, a guest of a pre-wedding party on board the Fernandes, on how he saw the boat heading straight for the reef.

“We found the woman hanging on the edge.”
A neighbour of Marlene Casha describing how her birthday party ended in rubble when the floor of her kitchen caved into the basement.

“Vocabulary as rich as it is rare.”
European Court of Human Rights president Jean-Paul Costa paying tribute to retiring judge Giovanni Bonello’s elegant, yet forceful style.

“Indecent productions... can lead to copycat violence.”
Young ‘parliamentarians’ voting for the censorship of obscene plays and films during a mock sitting.