In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.


Ava DuVernay

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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...
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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
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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
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER
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