"Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them."

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Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

Alan Brennert

#Divorce Quotes #Ties Quotes #People Quotes

“The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.”
“I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”
“I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.”
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”
“I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.”
“Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.”

Source : Lindley Murray (1841). “English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix by Lindley Murray”, p.176
“The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.”

Source : 1908 Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24 Jul.
“I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.”

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