“He beat me... over and over.”

Alicia Spiteri, 23, recounting how her boyfriend Sean Grima beat her savagely for 10 hours, and a few days later attacked her with a penknife.


“This is a mess... heads must roll.”

Nationalist MP Jean-Pierre Farrugia insisting responsibility should be shouldered by those who advised the Prime Minister on granting increases to MPs and ministers ‘behind the public’s back’.


“Marriage will be made almost redundant.”

Andrè Camilleri, chairman of the anti-divorce movement, on why the organisation was set up to counter the pro-divorce movement.


“Every day is like a holiday.”

Barbara Bode, who chose to live in Malta, on why she believes the island placed third in the international Living magazine’s Quality of Life Index 2011.


“Only a vote for the Labour Party can change things around.”

Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat telling those protesting against the rise in cost of living that if his party was trusted with the country’s administration he would carry the burden with them.


“I’m normal; not particularly courageous.”

Maureen Cole shrugging off suggestions she did anything heroic when she donated a kidney to her brother, Fr Pierre Grech Marguerat.

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