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Top 25 Kawai Strong Washburn Quotes (2025 Update)

Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Years already I’d been trying to understand what was inside me, while the rest of the world was trying it to tear it out.”

1. “Years already I’d been trying to understand what was inside me, while the rest of the world was trying it to tear it out.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Whenever I’ve made a choice in my life, a real choice... I can always feel the change, after I choose. The better versions of myself, moving just out of reach.”

2. “Whenever I’ve made a choice in my life, a real choice... I can always feel the change, after I choose. The better versions of myself, moving just out of reach.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can’t avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”

3. “If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can’t avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Everyone’s always ‘just joking,’ right? Except when they’re not.”

4. “Everyone’s always ‘just joking,’ right? Except when they’re not.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Take a match and hold it to the strip, start the strike. Somewhere at the microscopic level there are whole worlds of hot light that gather and jump to the match tip. That’s what we were.”

5. “Take a match and hold it to the strip, start the strike. Somewhere at the microscopic level there are whole worlds of hot light that gather and jump to the match tip. That’s what we were.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “There was this one philosophy class I been in at the university, where the professor was talking about force. He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power.”

6. “There was this one philosophy class I been in at the university, where the professor was talking about force. He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on.”

7. “Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can’t avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and pasts that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. As I age I learn that there are more gods than I’ll ever know, and yet I have to watch for all of them, or else they can use me or I can lose them without even realizing it.”

8. “If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can’t avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and pasts that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. As I age I learn that there are more gods than I’ll ever know, and yet I have to watch for all of them, or else they can use me or I can lose them without even realizing it.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “If someone were to ask me what money means this would be what I would say: The world feels like it will stay under you no matter what you do.”

9. “If someone were to ask me what money means this would be what I would say: The world feels like it will stay under you no matter what you do.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “But that’s the problem with the present, it’s never the thing you’re holding, only the thing you’re watching.”

10. “But that’s the problem with the present, it’s never the thing you’re holding, only the thing you’re watching.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power. I think about me and Noa and I’m like, I been using force my whole life. What does that make me?”

11. “He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power. I think about me and Noa and I’m like, I been using force my whole life. What does that make me?”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Sometimes I don’t know if the fight finds me or I find the fight. Especially with my family.”

12. “Sometimes I don’t know if the fight finds me or I find the fight. Especially with my family.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “When I close my eyes we’re all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us.”

13. “When I close my eyes we’re all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “But I’m in the water, too, I wanted to say. And there are plenty eyes on you. No one’s watching to see if I stay afloat.”

14. “But I’m in the water, too, I wanted to say. And there are plenty eyes on you. No one’s watching to see if I stay afloat.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “The more I understood what we were all made of, the more everyone I’d touched stayed inside me, still crying out, showing me their injuries over and over and over and over and over.”

15. “The more I understood what we were all made of, the more everyone I’d touched stayed inside me, still crying out, showing me their injuries over and over and over and over and over.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Okay, there are two versions of Dad, I know there are: The one that we see now, that is something like a dream trapped in a body. And then there is the Augie that was once a cane-truck driver once a husband once a luggage handler once a father. I’ve seen them both since I’ve been home, is what I tell her.”

16. “Okay, there are two versions of Dad, I know there are: The one that we see now, that is something like a dream trapped in a body. And then there is the Augie that was once a cane-truck driver once a husband once a luggage handler once a father. I’ve seen them both since I’ve been home, is what I tell her.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “But that’s the problem with the present, it’s never the thing you’re holding, only the thing you’re watching, later, from a distance so great the memory might as well be a spill of stars outside a window at twilight.”

17. “But that’s the problem with the present, it’s never the thing you’re holding, only the thing you’re watching, later, from a distance so great the memory might as well be a spill of stars outside a window at twilight.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “The feeling settles. The loss becomes as much a part of me as anything.”

18. “The feeling settles. The loss becomes as much a part of me as anything.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “That part doesn’t matter... Or it doesn’t scare me. If there’s something on the other side or not. It’s the getting there, you know? That last minute when you’re leaving, still living in this world even as it’s closing up around you. You have to do that part alone.”

19. “That part doesn’t matter... Or it doesn’t scare me. If there’s something on the other side or not. It’s the getting there, you know? That last minute when you’re leaving, still living in this world even as it’s closing up around you. You have to do that part alone.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Hope can be a god as well. It’s something that can be prayed to.”

20. “Hope can be a god as well. It’s something that can be prayed to.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power.”

21. “He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don’t got power.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Whatever part of me flowed into you from my body, it turned us tight into two people that shared a soul. I believe that of all my children. Fathers will never understand the way you get deep in us, so deep that there’s a part of me that remains, always, a part of you, no matter where you go.”

22. “Whatever part of me flowed into you from my body, it turned us tight into two people that shared a soul. I believe that of all my children. Fathers will never understand the way you get deep in us, so deep that there’s a part of me that remains, always, a part of you, no matter where you go.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “But ships from far ports carried a new god in their bellies, a god who blew a breath of weeping blisters and fevers that torched whole generations, a god whose fingers were shaped like rifles and whose voice sounded like treaties waiting to be broken.”

23. “But ships from far ports carried a new god in their bellies, a god who blew a breath of weeping blisters and fevers that torched whole generations, a god whose fingers were shaped like rifles and whose voice sounded like treaties waiting to be broken.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “I’ve started to enjoy these first hours the best. The air is fresh with unbreathed oxygen and my ears are stuffed with pure quiet.”

24. “I’ve started to enjoy these first hours the best. The air is fresh with unbreathed oxygen and my ears are stuffed with pure quiet.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “I wanted us together, wanted them to feel with me the big nameless thing we’d worked our way into, a silence like the presence of our own private God.”

25. “I wanted us together, wanted them to feel with me the big nameless thing we’d worked our way into, a silence like the presence of our own private God.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Phillip with his raging boner for the sound of his own voice, always the first to pipe up with the proposed solution.”

26. “Phillip with his raging boner for the sound of his own voice, always the first to pipe up with the proposed solution.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “Always, always boys. Whole classes, boys shaped like teddy beats or tree lizards. Always first to pull out their opinions, shove their knowledge at each other. I guess there’s many ways engineering could feel but mostly it felt like any place feels where there’s twenty boys and three girls. I had to go in with my back like a rod. Be the baddest both is what I said, in my head. And then did.”

27. “Always, always boys. Whole classes, boys shaped like teddy beats or tree lizards. Always first to pull out their opinions, shove their knowledge at each other. I guess there’s many ways engineering could feel but mostly it felt like any place feels where there’s twenty boys and three girls. I had to go in with my back like a rod. Be the baddest both is what I said, in my head. And then did.”

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Kawai Strong Washburn Quote: “My time as a mother was the same as those last gasping breaths of the owl, and soon enough you’d have to gently set down my love, fold it up into the soil of your childhood, and move beyond.”

28. “My time as a mother was the same as those last gasping breaths of the owl, and soon enough you’d have to gently set down my love, fold it up into the soil of your childhood, and move beyond.”

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