Quotables

“No Armenian will be left here within maybe two weeks.”

NONNA POGHOSYAN, the American University of Armenia’s program coordinator in the city of Xankāndi in Nagorno-Karabakh, speaking to CNN after Azerbaijan took control of the region in a one-day military offensive. About half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians had fled to neighboring Armenia as of Sept. 28.

“There’s not enough therapy, there’s not enough medication that will take the thoughts away, that will take the pain away.”

TIMIKA THOMAS, telling KLAS how she lost her two unborn babies after taking abortive drugs mistakenly given to her by a CVS pharmacy in North Las Vegas. Pharmacists had meant to give her prescribed medication for her IVF pregnancy.

“It’s an area that has a specific set of skills.”

ELEANOR O’LEARY, a media and communications lecturer at South East Technological University in Carlow, Ireland, telling broadcaster RTÉ about the school’s new degree in social-media influencing, the country’s first.

“Let’s go, let’s go, Geronimo!”

Chicago resident DOROTHY HOFFNER, 104, minutes before making a tandem skydive jump in Ottawa, Ill., on Oct. 1 that she afterward described as “wonderful.” Hoffner hopes to be certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest skydiver.