Emptiness felt like a living thing. A parasite growing in the center of your chest, somewhere behind your heart, taking every ounce of warmth and light and happiness and consuming it until there's nothing left. Emptiness feels like exhaustion, like there's no reason to fight, no reason to take another breath, no reason to try to survive. But emptiness also feels like freedom. Because it doesn't just take the good, it takes the bad, too--the anger, the bitterness, the pain--and when it's done, it leaves you with just you. A cold, shell-like echo of yourself, but still you.
Ava Jae
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a b... GEORGE MARTIN People say hate is like a poison — but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your firs... NENIA CAMPBELL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you feel like you can't take another moment of criticism don't result to taking your life. Just... ELIZABETH FORNEY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; o... RICHARD YATES Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something... C. JOYBELL C. No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential em... LIU CIXIN I believe that people with a sense of humor are the reason that there are emo kids, its kinda like t... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours... JAMES JONES Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the O... PAULA RADCLIFFE There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a worko... DANICA MCKELLAR But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ... TIM O'BRIEN Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the re... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It was like a deer in the headlights. There's just some days when you and your partner aren't clicki... GARRETT LUCASH As long as you're alive... ...you can't put life on hold like you can with a game-so that's why... HOTARU ODAGIRI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. Wh... SABAA TAHIR Theres a good reason I dont believe in God. No one that almighty, powerful, and rightoues, would eve... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic e... DAVID LAMBERT By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a t... AARON HUEY Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there w... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Maybe it's just me, but it seems like when things are going wrong-your wife is ready to leave you, a... STEVEN BRUST I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the moun... MARILYNNE ROBINSON All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like t... MICHAEL IAN BLACK To question reason is to trust it. MITCH STOKES To Your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone, no more than a watch in the night. ANONYMOUS Time is a lie. Each second, when I am not with you, seems like an eternity and every moment when you... AKSHAY VASU They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wak... MARCO SCUTARO It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see th... KAZUO ISHIGURO Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. JONATHAN GALASSI Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it. ASHTON KUTCHER Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent re... MARTINE LEAVITT You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen ... NEIL GAIMAN Come forward and organize the world with happiness and I am sure that your good deeds will be forgot... ASIF ATAHI He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believ... ANDREW SOLOMON Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you fo... SUSANNA TAMARO The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Scotch is my drink of choice. I love the burn, and you can take your time with it. There's no need t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t rea... CHARLIE MACLEAN The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t rea... CHARLIE MACLEAN just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it bre... LOUISE SUGGS Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with... TREVON CLARK I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another. FAITH N. Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. TREVON CLARK The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you'v... BONNIE SHIMKO Do you ever feel like you are running on empty? What is missing from your life? What would it take t... SUSAN C. YOUNG When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing to... ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting w... RYū MURAKAMI As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch o... TIFFANY L. JACKSON I... There was a time when I stopped talking. Just like you. My reasons were a little bit different,... NATSUKI TAKAYA The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like y... UTAH PHILLIPS A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsi... RICHARD BACH I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels li... TOM WILKINSON The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap... MARLEE MATLIN I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young whe... PAT CONROY Self-help and those stupid proverbs, they do nothing. Soul food? It’s like trying to cure starvati... C. SEAN MCGEE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The tricky thing about rumination is that it feels like it's helpful, but there's no action taken, a... CARLA GRAYSON While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the u... ALYSON NOEL No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done wit... ELIZABETH GOUDGE We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT There is no pain, just coldness which leads to a lack of sensation. It feels like I stuck my thumb i... CHRIS YOUNG A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist. ROD DREHER The law of a good start:
Start your morning with a smile. You don't need any reason to smile. Just s... JOHN B. BEJO Once in a while you could be in a house full of people and you still find emptiness in your heart. OLASOT When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a cri... DON ROFF No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your h... WILLIAM LAW No, you will listen. For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compa... RICHELLE MEAD You don’t want me to stand against the council. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smac... RACHEL VINCENT Bugs Bunny is the smoothest dude I ever met. You know he be chillin' like it just be a normal day an... DELONTE WEST Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? I... CHELSEA HANDLER Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vul... STEFAN MOLYNEUX Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to... DEAN KOONTZ Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the w... JOHN CROWLEY Why do we choose sadness over happiness, when we are hurting? answer is simple, because every other ... SNEHA AGARWAL It feels good and bad. It's nice to get three wins in a row, but I also felt like in some of the are... AARON JOHNSTON When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give than... TECUMSEH With a few swift steps, Adrian stood in front of me again. The wall was only a couple inches behind ... RICHELLE MEAD You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and ti... JAKE VANDER-ARK Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to e... RICK YANCEY When you enjoy doing something it no longer feels like a task but an essential aspiration. RYAN HOWE government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreas... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
More Ava Jae
oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human. AVA. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe. you are capable of l... AVA. i swallowed the syllables of your name and i was full. AVA. i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything. AVA. i am changing 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. do not let anyone in until they love you so fiercely, you have no defense against their lo... 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. AVA Onze aarde hangt niet voor niets scheef. Het is een ironische onderstreping van al het zijn op haar ... ANNA JAE We are pleased to add AOS to our expanding base of customers. We look forward to supporting AOS with... JAE SONG Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning. ANNA JAE Trust isn’t something you can just one day decide to have. Trust cannot be fabricated out of thin ... ANNA JAE To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not... ANNA JAE you’re ignoring me so loud that it’s deafening. This silence is so deep that it’s echoin... ANNA JAE de eindigheid van de dingen de willekeur-- het voortdurend breken en lijmen van... ANNA JAE God. Hoe kan er ook maar een fractie van u zijn in deze blasfemische willekeur? ANNA JAE There are two things about Sequence that make them an ideal partner for this effort. First, they hav... JAE SONG I was definitely not satisfied with my performance. I think the jet lag from the World Baseball Clas... JAE SEO Korea and Japan are known to be the top two teams in Asia, and that's why we have a very strong riva... JAE SEO Whenever we have a game against Japan, we have the strong will to beat Team Japan. JAE SEO I feel great, ... I'm a father and I have a family to take care of. My thinking has changed. I reall... JAE SEO In the past I thought I could do a lot with my fastball and changeup, ... From last year on I've bee... JAE SEO I know I got myself into some difficult situations at times, ... But I just kept my head in the game... JAE SEO It was a splitter I was trying to get down, but it was too high, ... I knew it was a bad pitch, but ... JAE SEO It was too high, ... I knew it was a bad pitch. JAE SEO My disappointment, I left behind. I'm a very optimistic person. When you're optimistic, the good opp... JAE SEO Sometimes you just have to change the karma, JAE SEO The club is a motivation to practice and get together to teach each other. JAE KIM As we study at the U, we want to learn more than what our majors are teaching us. The classical guit... JAE KIM They have a sort of opportunistic component to their life history pattern that's much more flexible ... JAE ABEL Amphibians are one of the latest groups of organisms to show us changes are afoot on the landscape. ... JAE ABEL The sensitive species, which a lot of amphibians are thought to be, are in short supply. We have a c... JAE ABEL oh, how bitter how bitter silent the bewildered sorrow of a texture too thick to... ANNA JAE I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!' AVA DUVERNAY Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our fil... AVA DUVERNAY We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a... AVA DUVERNAY Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an... AVA GARDNER How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to ... AVA DELLAIRA Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. AVA GARDNER You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood... AVA DELLAIRA What I told you about saving people isn't true. You might think it is, because you might want someon... AVA DELLAIRA And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going ... AVA DELLAIRA I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as... AVA DELLAIRA God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in ot... AVA GARDNER The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were n... AVA DUVERNAY I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniver... AVA DUVERNAY When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be ... AVA DUVERNAY You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast... AVA DUVERNAY Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff. AVA DELLAIRA In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narr... AVA DUVERNAY There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a b... AVA DUVERNAY I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip. AVA DUVERNAY The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time. AVA GARDNER We want to go home and see with our own eyes what the damage is before we decide if we're going to r... AVA SEVIN We heard they had an oil spill. Whether it got to our house, we don't know. AVA SEVIN We come here for meals and to see the people we've met from the different areas of New Orleans. We w... AVA SEVIN On Saturday, when the mayor told everyone to evacuate New Orleans, we got everything together and go... AVA SEVIN Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak... AVA GARDNER After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can'... AVA GARDNER I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, ... AVA GARDNER I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. ... AVA GARDNER I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. AVA GARDNER What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in. AVA GARDNER Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an... AVA GARDNER I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world. AVA GARDNER For the loot, honey, for the loot. AVA GARDNER I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see tho... AVA DUVERNAY I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you... AVA DUVERNAY You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within ... AVA DUVERNAY For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w... AVA DUVERNAY The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and a... AVA DUVERNAY When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w... AVA DUVERNAY I liked the darkness, the dusty bay window, the view over the grey, muddy harbour and the towering c... AVA BLOOMFIELD I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless rib... AVA BLOOMFIELD Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth... AVA GARDNER The numbers on the board don’t mean a thing, because for the first time in forever, I have somewhe... AVA DELLAIRA You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec... AVA DELLAIRA I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a cr... AVA DUVERNAY Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot o... AVA DUVERNAY Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. AVA GARDNER There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful p... AVA DUVERNAY With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hopi... AVA DUVERNAY Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking... AVA DUVERNAY To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's stil... AVA DUVERNAY I'm not going to make someone my priority, when I'm their option. AVA PORTER Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just fro... AVA DUVERNAY Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'M... AVA DUVERNAY I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone... AVA DUVERNAY Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves. AVA DUVERNAY Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view. AVA DUVERNAY There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I ... AVA DUVERNAY Film school was a privilege I could not afford. AVA DUVERNAY I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film indus... AVA DUVERNAY I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I d... AVA DUVERNAY There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant cultur... AVA DUVERNAY We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won&... AVA DUVERNAY 'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and... AVA DUVERNAY Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an... AVA DUVERNAY Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get ... AVA DELLAIRA I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. AVA GARDNER Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historic... AVA DUVERNAY Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your... AVA DUVERNAY There's been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in the... AVA DUVERNAY A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act,... AVA DUVERNAY When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place. AVA GARDNER Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you. AVA GARDNER When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull.... AVA GARDNER But to me, they were beautiful, like their own constellation. AVA DELLAIRA As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the projec... AVA DUVERNAY But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that. AVA DELLAIRA All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it... AVA DUVERNAY I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able ... AVA DUVERNAY I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who co... AVA DUVERNAY The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presenta... AVA DUVERNAY The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomo... AVA DUVERNAY The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go. AVA HARRISON I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years... AVA DUVERNAY My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films... AVA DUVERNAY Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-right... AVA DUVERNAY I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself. AVA DELLAIRA Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we... AVA DUVERNAY My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus William... AVA DUVERNAY You are bravery to me. AVA DELLAIRA Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all ... AVA DELLAIRA I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes u... AVA DELLAIRA You learned right away that applause sounds like love. AVA DELLAIRA May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure... AVA DELLAIRA We are each weird in a different way, but together, that's actually normal. AVA DELLAIRA Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is... AVA DUVERNAY Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry. AVA DUVERNAY Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak... AVA GARDNER I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul. AVA GARDNER I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifull... AVA DUVERNAY The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free. AVA FARMEHRI I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think... AVA DUVERNAY I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away al... AVA DUVERNAY All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and... AVA DUVERNAY When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t... AVA GARDNER If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meani... AVA DELLAIRA I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright. AVA DELLAIRA I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s w... AVA DELLAIRA The thing about traditions is that they hold up the shape of your memory. AVA DELLAIRA We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don’t notice how it affects so... AVA DELLAIRA It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you. AVA DELLAIRA So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we a... AVA DELLAIRA I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or... AVA DELLAIRA A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to f... AVA DELLAIRA I mean, words can't be good enough for a lot of things. But, you know, I guess we have to try. AVA DELLAIRA she walked like she belonged in a better world, AVA DELLAIRA Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that... AVA DELLAIRA I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you’re dead, but I think there must be ... AVA DELLAIRA Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that�... AVA DELLAIRA Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply beca... AVA DELLAIRA There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That... AVA DELLAIRA There's more to life than being a passenger. AVA DELLAIRA But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff. 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. AVA DELLAIRA You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling. AVA DELLAIRA I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I... AVA DUVERNAY If your dream is only about you, it's too small. 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