NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“The Internet has really killed us, frankly. We have to understand, it’s just a different time. We’ve gotten old and the technology has gotten new. We have to adapt, or that’s it. But we can’t adapt enough to pay the rent.”

? Mary-Alice Currie, owner of the Apollo Book Shop, on closing her store after 44 years of business in Costa Mesa.

“You would think after 40 years of those songs you’d go nuts. Oddly enough, the minute I walk on stage I become 25 years old again ? and the audience gives you that love; the song becomes new, and everything becomes fresh.”

? Bill Medley, Righteous Brother and Newport Beach resident, who performed Wednesday to kick off the Fashion Island Summer Concert Series.

“The city of Costa Mesa offered a number of alternatives that at the end of our deliberations simply were not acceptable to the city of Newport Beach. It has been all give on our part and all take on our neighboring city’s part.”

? Allan Roeder, Costa Mesa city manager, on the proposed annexation of West Santa Ana Heights by Newport Beach.

“You never are in your comfort zone, really, when you’re doing the show, but it’s all good. There are definitely moments that make it all worth it. It’s a roller-coaster ride, it really is.”

? Heidi Groskreutz, Newport Harbor High School alumna, who is a finalist on the Fox reality show “So You Think You Can Dance.”

“The monetary costs could be negligent, but the true costs are the chilling effect it has on the community to bring forth quality projects. They’ve made it very clear that if Greenlight II passes that they’re going to take their project to the county and process it through the county.”

? Steve Rosansky, Newport Beach city councilman, on placing the slow-growth measure Greenlight II on the November ballot.

“It was coming out of the tip of her roof.”

? Emily Anastos, a 6-year-old Newport Beach girl who firefighters credit with saving a neighbor’s home because she noticed smoke rising from the roof.