Ashara Zavros Quotes & Sayings

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone. — Laozi

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate. — Lizz Winstead

We who are dreamers and doers want only the chance to dream and do, to have an idea and to try to carry it out without interference. — Dan Groat

...there's seldom one event that makes a person a certain way, it's the numerous bumps and bruises and stories of personal triumph in a life that makes us these beautifully scared creatures. — L.M. Adams

Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation. The fundamental essence of the death instinct, the instinct that destroys all psychic structure is apparent in this phenomenon. . . . The death drive is against knowing and against the developing of knowledge and elaborating [it]. — Dori Laub

The magic you adore is in your eyes! — Abhishek Kumar

When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans. — Eddie Trunk

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives. — John Quincy Adams

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan. — Utada Hikaru

I'm not letting go of you. — Jojo Moyes

I've always felt that my first duty as an ethnographer was to make sure my work did not harm those who invited me into their lives. But this can be a complicated and delicate matter because it is not always obvious at first what does harm.4 Especially in poor neighborhoods, nothing is free. People get compensated for favors one way or another. Ned and Earl figured that if I was giving their girlfriends rides as they looked for housing and went about their business, I must be getting something in return. I was, of course: stories. That was the strange thing. Their accusations were perfectly valid, and I took them seriously. — Matthew Desmond

In the dark glass where the road poured down their cigarettes rose and fell like distant semaphores above the soft green dawn of the dashlights. — Cormac McCarthy