32 Quotes by Kiana Davenport

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

She would have to learn the lesson every day: that, sometimes, all that will define a person — instill within them dignity and purpose — all the human answers, are frozen in a few moments, a few days, and all the days to come are just a looking back.

I wonder...if a life lived only in the mind is any less intense? If all the senses are engaged what is lost, but fact?

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

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.

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.

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

So much easier to give. I detest asking.

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