Ardavan Akhavan Quotes & Sayings

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder. — Nicole Krauss

I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us. — Tom Coburn

That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them. — Bryan Swanson

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours. — Vernon Howard

Regardless of how dead we feel in a crowd, we cling to the uniquely American assumption that associating is good and necessary and solitude is suspect. — Laurie A. Helgoe

I'm in no hurry to do anything. I'll probably lie here for the rest of the day. (Great term, that, 'rest of the day'.) — Fennel Hudson

-I don't need fancy clothes, Leo. I just need you.
- You can have both.-he says smiling back. — Mia Sheridan

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant ... — Jane Austen

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that. — Chelsea Leyland