“ Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. Kiana Davenport
“ 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 face… Kiana Davenport
“ 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
“ 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,… Kiana Davenport
“ 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
“ 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… 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. Kiana Davenport
“ Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else.... Kiana Davenport
“ 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.… Kiana Davenport
