Witi Ihimaera Quotes

#1. 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.

Witi Ihimaera

#2. This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

John Mellencamp

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

Witi Ihimaera

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

Witi Ihimaera

#6. 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.

Witi Ihimaera

#7. Pigpen says your brothers think we're taking too long.

Katie McGarry

#8. I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.

Jessie Ware

#9. I know his pain, the horrible crushing sadness of loving something gentle only to see it ripped apart by the hard world.

Pierce Brown

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

Witi Ihimaera

#11. You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

Karen Maezen Miller

#12. I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.

Neil Gaiman

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

Witi Ihimaera

#14. I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn't mess with.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

Jane Roper

#19. I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art.

Jennifer Niven

#20. The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#21. 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.

Witi Ihimaera

#22. ... 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.

Witi Ihimaera

#23. 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.

Witi Ihimaera