“After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.” — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.” — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier. — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth,… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“She thought for a moment, then said, “When we are young, we think life will be like a su po: one fabric,… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“You make all these decisions in your life, and they all seem like the right decisions at the time. You think you're… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.” — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“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… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?” — Alan Brennert Copy Share
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“They toured the new hospital, the renovated and expanded McVeigh Home, and the (named without apparent irony) Bay View Home for the Blind and… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.” — Alan Brennert Copy Share
I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…is the true measure of the Divine within us. — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“...and all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death.” — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“But no - I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
“What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the… — Alan Brennert Copy Share
