Akhtiorskaya Quotes

#1. I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Keith Gessen

#2. I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Langston Hughes

#3. One must make the most of opportunities, or they are lost forever.

Paulo Coelho

#4. How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret?

Margaret Atwood

#5. At some point, the family you create is more important than the one you were born into.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#6. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

#7. Banal, prepackaged sentiments neatly wrapped with a bow on top, like she got them at the resentful-wife store. And when she used them, you could tell how much she was tapping into their universal power. She was destroyed and destructive and had to say something.

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

#8. Remember you have just one mother, said Marina. Better not rush her to the grave! Though Marina had grown up with such reminders from her own mother, she could never get the tone quite right herself.

Yelena Akhtiorskaya