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do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love.


AVA.

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More AVA.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.
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and i was full.
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and i am loving change.
AVA i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first, AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA. love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i ...
AVA. there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separat...
AVA. and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA. you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer...
AVA. i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.
AVA. you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA. i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA. we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA. you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA. the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurti...
AVA. i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA. i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
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AVA DUVERNAY The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomo...
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AVA DELLAIRA We are each weird in a different way, but together, that's actually normal.
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AVA DUVERNAY Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
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AVA DELLAIRA she walked like she belonged in a better world,
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AVA DELLAIRA I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear...
AVA DELLAIRA When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.
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AVA DUVERNAY There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom...
AVA DUVERNAY It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
AVA DUVERNAY I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l...
AVA DUVERNAY What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo...
AVA DUVERNAY All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my ha...
AVA DELLAIRA Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us...
AVA DELLAIRA The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
DR AVA CADELL