27 Quotes by Kawai Strong Washburn

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.

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.

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

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.

Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on.

When I close my eyes we're all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us.

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

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.

She never said shit like this to the boys, only to me. Like I was supposed to guilty of ambition while they were just living their full potential.