Te Fiti Quotes

She was Moana of Motunui, chosen by the ocean to save her people from the blight, to restore the heart of Te Fiti.

Te Kā can’t follow us into the water….We make it past the barrier islands…we make it to Te Fiti.” She put Heihei in a basket. “None of which you understand because you are a chicken.

Unlike Te Kā, the mother island smelled of fresh moss drenched with river water, and her stare did not scald Moana--- though something ancient stirred within the facets of the goddess's gemstone eyes. I know who you are, Moana. Moana trembled under the goddess's watch as Te Fiti's voice lilted through her mind, light as a breeze. Now you see, the goddess told her, and a warmth shivered across Moana's skin. The goddess's hand hovered in the air, and Moana felt her power coarse through her cursed arm and shoulder, cleansing her skin of the black veins and stone that encased her palm, wrist, neck, and jaw. Instead, where the goddess's hand passed, flowers and moss crawled up Moana's arm, tickling her skin with their petals and plush leaves.

Whatever it was, she'd eat it, she promised herself. She'd do it for her people, Maui, and Te Fiti--- A cloying sweetness drifted toward her. A familiar aroma. Is that banana? Moana's eyes winked open and--- sure enough--- baked bananas glistened in a pool of coconut cream. The monsters were serving bowls of banana po'e.

In the other visions Te Fiti had sent her, wherever she went, the goddess had smelled of flowers and fresh green growth, perfuming the air with tiare, lehua honey, and heady moss.