Kiana Davenport Quotes & Sayings

#1. Life is running backwards. What did I do wrong?

#2. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

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#3. When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

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#4. There are women locked in my womb forever, the memory of their birth. All I can do now is liberate the fruit of their wombs. And it may be too late.

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#5. We must live. Or what have we suffered for? Will these years have been for nothing?

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#6. I keep forgetting were Pono's girls. Maybe we're not suppose to be happy.'
'Then we'll pretend to be,' Rachel said. ' We'll make it a habit, no matter what.'
That's all we can do, Jess thought. Live in readiness for whatever comes.

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#7. She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

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#8. Sometimes, child, we die in metaphor.

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#9. She tried to show them how women could do anything, and do it competently. How problems could be worked out if they ignored what people said and did what conscience required.

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#10. Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

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#11. He thinks of all he has seen and learned: that the universe is indifferent to our human endeavors, that what gives our lives meaning is the passion that invades our hearts and burns in us, and maybe even destroys us.

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#12. So much easier to give. I detest asking.

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#13. Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.

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#14. Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

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#15. Beware of logic.

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#16. Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

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#17. Time, the thing we can't beat back ... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die.
Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.

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