Witi Ihimaera Quotes

#1. Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.

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#2. When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

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#3. ... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

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#4. Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

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#5. In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.

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#6. All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.

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#7. Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

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#8. When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion.
We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

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#9. Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

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#10. Lots of people come just to dance and have a good time. Here you can do anything you want to do, be anyone you want to be. It's called freedom. Be careful, it can be contagious.

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#11. When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it.

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#12. He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

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#13. It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.

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