Contact
Privacy
Book: Honolulu
Quotes of Book: Honolulu
TOP TAGS :poetic-prosereboundfamous-authorsrobert-frosticeutilitarianismdefense-mechanismphilip-k-dick

  1. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    I listened, rapt and silent, as he conjured from the cold black type the image of a woman of many years past, shivering in the chill predawn light as she waited for the sun to rise.
    book-quote

  2. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    When we are young, we think life will be like a su po: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. There is harmony in this, too, and beauty. I suppose that is why I like the chogak po.
    book-quote

  3. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    I did not know this word, "lynching," but when I asked Jade Moon about it she explained, "As I understand, it refers to a custom in the American South, where white men may punish the darker peoples with impunity by hanging them from trees." I was speechless. How could such barbarity exist in a land of freedom like America? What country was this, in which I had been living all these years?
    book-quote

  4. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    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.
    book-quotelovemarriage

  5. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    An empty cart rattles loudly," she said, meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.
    book-quote

  6. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a "mixed plate"-a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them loses its individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely "local" cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best-a whole greater than the sum of its parts. I"
    book-quote

  7. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    We moved into Jade Moon's rooming house within the week, and slowly she and I found that our friendship, though damaged, was like fabric torn on the seam: not beyond repair.
    book-quotelove

  8. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    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.
    book-quotemarriage

  9. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    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.
    book-quoteuniqueness-of-individualsquare-pegkorean-saying

  10. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Legend holds that seesaws became popular with girls because on the upswing they were able to catch a glimpse of the world beyond their cloistered walls.
    book-quoteseesaws

  11. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu--- "fair wind".
    book-quotesummerhonolulutropical-paradise

  12. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.
    book-quoterace-relationshawaiihonolulu
Categories