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Alan Brennert Quote: “I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to say that such happiness, so long denied, was now a part of my everyday life.”

51. “I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to say that such happiness, so long denied, was now a part of my everyday life.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “We are together, all else can be endured.”

52. “We are together, all else can be endured.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Before Cook’s arrival the native population of Hawai’i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand.”

53. “Before Cook’s arrival the native population of Hawai’i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “She leaned back in the bed and smiled, feeling excited at the prospect; feeling hope.”

54. “She leaned back in the bed and smiled, feeling excited at the prospect; feeling hope.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. “But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien’s name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?”

55. “No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. “But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien’s name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.”

56. “She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “A woman feels a man inside her and feels life. The act they engage in is the one from which all life springs, and for that moment they can feel that they are living, not dying.”

57. “A woman feels a man inside her and feels life. The act they engage in is the one from which all life springs, and for that moment they can feel that they are living, not dying.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien’s name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?”

58. “Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien’s name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “If that is your God, Father Kamiano, your Jehovah, who would condemn a kind and tender man to hell for the sin of not believing in him – then I shall follow my Keo to hell, as I followed him to this one, and together we spit on your God and his heaven!”

59. “If that is your God, Father Kamiano, your Jehovah, who would condemn a kind and tender man to hell for the sin of not believing in him – then I shall follow my Keo to hell, as I followed him to this one, and together we spit on your God and his heaven!”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “What does the proverb say? ‘Let things of long ago drift away on the water.”

60. “What does the proverb say? ‘Let things of long ago drift away on the water.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn’t give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.”

61. “I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn’t give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Hawai’i became only the second sovereign nation to join the United States. But unlike the Republic of Texas, where a public referendum was held, no one asked the thirty-one thousand native Hawaiians whether they wished to give up their country. Twenty-nine thousand of them signed a petition of protest, which was submitted to Congress and politely ignored.”

62. “Hawai’i became only the second sovereign nation to join the United States. But unlike the Republic of Texas, where a public referendum was held, no one asked the thirty-one thousand native Hawaiians whether they wished to give up their country. Twenty-nine thousand of them signed a petition of protest, which was submitted to Congress and politely ignored.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.”

63. “If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “This idea that sickness was the result of tiny, nearly invisible creatures swarming in the blood would have seemed ridiculous but for the fact that Dr. Mouritz had once shown her, under a microscope, the pink, tube-shaped “bacteria” discovered to be the cause of leprosy by the Norwegian scientist Gerhard Hansen.”

64. “This idea that sickness was the result of tiny, nearly invisible creatures swarming in the blood would have seemed ridiculous but for the fact that Dr. Mouritz had once shown her, under a microscope, the pink, tube-shaped “bacteria” discovered to be the cause of leprosy by the Norwegian scientist Gerhard Hansen.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “What kind of God would inflict such a horrible death – a horrible life – on children, just to test their faith in Him?”

65. “What kind of God would inflict such a horrible death – a horrible life – on children, just to test their faith in Him?”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “I believe in Hawai’i. I believe in the land.”

66. “I believe in Hawai’i. I believe in the land.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “She poked and jabbed until it bled, but felt no pain; it might as well have been someone else’s flesh, someone else’s body. She looked up at the pali, at the trail she had ascended years before, and cursed herself for a fool. She could have stayed topside, traveled, loved, married, lived! But she came back, damn it. She thought of all she’d given up in that moment, places she couldn’t imagine and would never know, and she wept. Night fell on her sorrows.”

67. “She poked and jabbed until it bled, but felt no pain; it might as well have been someone else’s flesh, someone else’s body. She looked up at the pali, at the trail she had ascended years before, and cursed herself for a fool. She could have stayed topside, traveled, loved, married, lived! But she came back, damn it. She thought of all she’d given up in that moment, places she couldn’t imagine and would never know, and she wept. Night fell on her sorrows.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “There were, Mouritz believed, three forms of the disease: one which attacked primarily the skin, and which spread rapidly and horribly throughout the body; one which attacked the nerves, progressing more slowly and with less deformity; and certain borderline cases, a mix of the two. Haleola had the neural form;.”

68. “There were, Mouritz believed, three forms of the disease: one which attacked primarily the skin, and which spread rapidly and horribly throughout the body; one which attacked the nerves, progressing more slowly and with less deformity; and certain borderline cases, a mix of the two. Haleola had the neural form;.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “She bought cleaning supplies and groceries at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, itself a revelation to her: so many kinds of food, so many different brands!”

69. “She bought cleaning supplies and groceries at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, itself a revelation to her: so many kinds of food, so many different brands!”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “But no – I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out the front door and joined him on the sidewalk, slipping my hand into his like a thread into a needle; and together we looked up at this sign, once the embodiment of a dream, now merely a remembrance of it.”

70. “But no – I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out the front door and joined him on the sidewalk, slipping my hand into his like a thread into a needle; and together we looked up at this sign, once the embodiment of a dream, now merely a remembrance of it.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Gaman was a word rooted in Buddhism that meant “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.” Ruth had heard her father use it often after they moved to California. And now, after they had endured so much already, here they were, once more forced to gaman.”

71. “Gaman was a word rooted in Buddhism that meant “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.” Ruth had heard her father use it often after they moved to California. And now, after they had endured so much already, here they were, once more forced to gaman.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Rachel smiled, somehow no longer afraid, and went back to bed: surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.”

72. “Rachel smiled, somehow no longer afraid, and went back to bed: surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “She would have given anything, any number of days of her life, just to hear Sarah call her “Little Miss Shoe.”

73. “She would have given anything, any number of days of her life, just to hear Sarah call her “Little Miss Shoe.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Carve the peg by looking at the hole.′ Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, ‘An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.”

74. “Carve the peg by looking at the hole.′ Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, ‘An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “December 22, 1980, the Kalaupapa peninsula was designated a National Historical Park and its residents were, as per Public Law 96–565, “guaranteed that they may remain at Kalaupapa as long as they wish.” As of this writing, there are approximately thirty-one individuals with Hansen’s disease living there in quiet dignity.”

75. “December 22, 1980, the Kalaupapa peninsula was designated a National Historical Park and its residents were, as per Public Law 96–565, “guaranteed that they may remain at Kalaupapa as long as they wish.” As of this writing, there are approximately thirty-one individuals with Hansen’s disease living there in quiet dignity.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high – a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.”

76. “Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high – a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Over the course of the next year, three more couples would ask to see Ruth. With each request her heart soared like a kite and after each rejection she was dashed to earth, convinced there was something lacking in her. She was hapa, half, incomplete. Half a cookie; who would want that? And eventually she learned a valuable lesson: she learned not to hope.”

77. “Over the course of the next year, three more couples would ask to see Ruth. With each request her heart soared like a kite and after each rejection she was dashed to earth, convinced there was something lacking in her. She was hapa, half, incomplete. Half a cookie; who would want that? And eventually she learned a valuable lesson: she learned not to hope.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “Rachel barely noticed any of it, and not just because she was insulated by the press of bodies on every side fo her. She paid little mind to the deck buckling beneath her like a maddened mule, or even to the stink of feces and urine that the exiles were forced to void where they sat. She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.”

78. “Rachel barely noticed any of it, and not just because she was insulated by the press of bodies on every side fo her. She paid little mind to the deck buckling beneath her like a maddened mule, or even to the stink of feces and urine that the exiles were forced to void where they sat. She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “And sometimes – as on the morning of April 1, 1946 – she would dream again of being.”

79. “And sometimes – as on the morning of April 1, 1946 – she would dream again of being.”

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Alan Brennert Quote: “After dinner she liked to linger in the aft lounge on “A” deck, listening to music and watching couples swing dancing. She would have given all the rest of her life to be on that dance floor with Kenji, feeling his arms around her as he held her close, followed by a long walk in the moonlight with nothing but ocean and freedom in every direction.”

80. “After dinner she liked to linger in the aft lounge on “A” deck, listening to music and watching couples swing dancing. She would have given all the rest of her life to be on that dance floor with Kenji, feeling his arms around her as he held her close, followed by a long walk in the moonlight with nothing but ocean and freedom in every direction.”

— Alan Brennert

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