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Kawai Strong Washburn QUOTES

Kawai Strong Washburn QUOTES

1 " The more I understood what we were all made of, the more everyone I'd touched stayed inside me, still crying out, showing me their injuries over and over and over and over and over. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

2 " Years already I'd been trying to understand what was inside me, while the rest of the world was trying it to tear it out. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

3 " But that's the problem with the present, it's never the thing you're holding, only the thing you're watching, later, from a distance so great the memory might as well be a spill of stars outside a window at twilight. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

4 " If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

5 " Take a match and hold it to the strip, start the strike. Somewhere at the microscopic level there are whole worlds of hot light that gather and jump to the match tip. That's what we were. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

6 " You probably just finished shitting anyway," Kaui says. She hands him the thermos, "was it a soft serve morning or more like a German sausage? "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

7 " But I'm in the water, too, I wanted to say. And there are plenty eyes on you. No one's watching to see if I stay afloat. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

8 " Everyone's always 'just joking,' right? Except when they're not. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

9 " Phillip with his raging boner for the sound of his own voice, always the first to pipe up with the proposed solution. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

10 " I go itchy with want, thin on sleep. I feel her fingers in mine. The way we could be both hard and soft on each other. Her sandy voice calling out as I climb one exposed cliff after another. ... All night this all goes through me, the four hours of sleep I get. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

11 " Whenever I've made a choice in my life, a real choice... I can always feel the change, after I choose. The better versions of myself, moving just out of reach. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

12 " There was this one philosophy class I been in at the university, where the professor was talking about force. He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don't got power. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

13 " Hope can be a god as well. It's something that can be prayed to. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

14 " Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

15 " My time as a mother was the same as those last gasping breaths of the owl, and soon enough you'd have to gently set down my love, fold it up into the soil of your childhood, and move beyond. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

16 " That part doesn't matter... Or it doesn't scare me. If there's something on the other side or not. It's the getting there, you know? That last minute when you're leaving, still living in this world even as it's closing up around you. You have to do that part alone. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

17 " I wanted us together, wanted them to feel with me the big nameless thing we'd worked our way into, a silence like the presence of our own private God. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

18 " If someone were to ask me what money means this would be what I would say: The world feels like it will stay under you no matter what you do. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

19 " He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don't got power. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors

20 " It’s an impossible thing to explain, motherhood. What is lost, the blood and muscle and bone that are drawn from your body to feed and breathe a new life into the world. The bulldozer of exhaustion that hits in the first trimester, the nauseous clamps of the mornings, the warping and swelling and splitting open of everything previously taut or delicate, until your body is no longer yours but something you must survive. But those are only the physical. It’s what comes after that takes more. Whatever part of me flowed into you from my body, it turned us tight into two people that shared a soul. I believe that of all my children. Fathers will never understand the way you get deep in us, so deep that there’s a part of me that remains, always, a part of you, no matter where you go. "

― Kawai Strong Washburn , Sharks in the Time of Saviors