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Kiana Davenport QUOTES

Kiana Davenport QUOTES

1 " God not da faddah, he just the spoiled moody child, but you got to go t'rough him to get to da real power, his mama, Mot'er God. She da real Almighty! She run da heavens alone. Original single parent. When somethin' bad happen, usually mean she let God try his hand, and he screw up plenny. You need something important, you go directly Mot'er God. Jesus, Mary, Joseph? Dey just small potatoes, part of the chorus, neh? "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

2 " Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else.... "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

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

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

4 " The diaries also revealed a deeply sensitive, intelligent woman, one who had hoped to start a college for Hawaiian women, affording them the 'same education as men.' She had planned to open a bank for women, enabling them to handle their own financial affairs. She recognized the need for more female lawyers and physicians, the need for women's rights over their bodies, and their destinies. And lastly, though she had a fondness for men, she felt women 'basically didn't need them. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

5 " 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. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

6 " You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs? "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

7 " 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. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

8 " 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. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

9 " We love that which we corrupt. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

10 " When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

11 " Inside the terminal at Keahole, they sat waiting to board, watching husky Hawaiians load luggage onto baggage ramps. Arriving tourists smiled at their dark, muscled bodies, handsome full-featured faces, the ease with which they lifted things of bulk and weight. Departing tourists took snapshots of them.
'That's how they see us', Pono whispered. 'Porters, servants. Hula Dancers, clowns. They never see us as we are, complex, ambiguous, inspired humans.'
'Not all haole see us that way...'Jess argued.
Vanya stared at her. 'Yes, all Haole and every foreigner who comes here puts us in one of two categories: The malignant stereotype of vicious, drunken, do-nothing kanaka and their loose-hipped, whoring wahine. Or, the benign stereotype of the childlike, tourist-loving, bare-foot, aloha-spirit natives. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

12 " Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?'
'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

13 " Beware of logic. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

14 " So much easier to give. I detest asking. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

15 " Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

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

― Kiana Davenport , House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories

17 " Pono always say slow-motion vulgar. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

18 " I used to think Ming was her favorite. But she’s grown too private, too remote. Rachel is lost. And I am too haolefied, what my mother taught me, so we could survive in that other world, the one that killed her "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

19 " 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. "

― Kiana Davenport , Shark Dialogues

20 " 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. "

― Kiana Davenport , The Spy Lover