Havaa Quotes

#1. He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were fantastical creatures that had died long ago, resurrected only in games of make believe.

Anthony Marra

#2. On the other side of the village Havaa was studying the pale blue flowers on her mother's skirt, annoyed she couldn't find them in the Caucasian flora guide. Why invent flowers when so many real ones would be honored to find their faces on a skirt?

Anthony Marra

#3. Havaa, standing on a stepstool and stirring the broth, found an unfamiliar gratitude for the smallness of her life. Everywhere beyond these four walls smelled of smoke and gasoline, but here, no calamity was greater than an egg falling to the floor.

Anthony Marra

#4. Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa's world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

Anthony Marra

#5. No ... he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.

Mo'Dayvia La'Beija

#6. I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

#7. My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. Every soul is a soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Steve Wozniak

#10. That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. Time's only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn't, it would have to destroy everything - the whole universe - and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn't
destroy anything. It merely moves us on - in this life - from one peephole to the next.

J.B. Priestley

#12. Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Basil Bunting

#13. Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Conor Oberst