Quotables

‘That means we’re done. The case is over.’

Cynthia Orr, lawyer for Hannah Overton, on a judge dismissing the capital murder case against her client. A jury in 2007 convicted Overton of murdering her 4-year-old foster son, Andrew Burd, by force-feeding him salt. An appeals court overruled the conviction in 2014, and prosecutors had sought to retry the case.

‘He was the ram in the bush.’

Judy Scott, mother of Walter Scott, who was fatally shot by a South Carolina policeman, on the unidentified man who videotaped the shooting, showing the official account by North Charleston police was erroneous. Scott told CNN “there’s some dirty cops” in North Charleston, but “because of the love of God in me ... I feel forgiveness in my heart, even for the guy that shot and killed my son.”

‘I thought I was going to be taken away from my parents.’

Ten-year-old Rafi Meitiv of Silver Spring, Md., on being in police custody on April 12 for several hours, including three hours in a squad car, because police had spotted him and sister Dvora, 6, playing alone in a park. The children had their parents’ permission to be at the park.

‘We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued. Their whereabouts remain unknown. As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them.’

Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect of Nigeria, on the one-year anniversary of Boko Haram militants kidnapping 276 schoolgirls.

‘People should realize we are in a new era. The idea of your nice little green lawn getting watered every day, those days are past.’

California Gov. Jerry Brown on sweeping state water restrictions due to the state’s drought (see “California’s drought denial”).