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title: "2 Bits and pieces Quotes By Alan Brennert"
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> [When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/when-we-are-young-we-think-life-will-be-like-a-supo-one-fabric-one/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

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> [“She thought for a moment, then said, “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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/she-thought-for-a-moment-then-said-when-we-are-young-we-think-life/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

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## Other authors on Bits and pieces

## More by Alan Brennert

> [“There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/there-is-beauty-in-the-least-beautiful-of-things/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/old-korean-adage-even-jade-has-flaws-or-in-other-words-nothing-in/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/summer-in-honolulu-brings-the-sweet-smell-of-mangoes-guava-and/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/perhaps-you-need-to-look-back-before-you-can-move-ahead/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/we-moved-into-jade-moon-s-rooming-house-within-the-week-and-slowly/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/isn-t-it-strange-how-one-so-afraid-of-contracting-a-fatal-malady/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/god-didn-t-give-man-wings-he-gave-him-the-brains-and-the-spirit-to/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“They toured the new hospital, the renovated and expanded McVeigh Home, and the (named without apparent irony) Bay View Home for the Blind and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/they-toured-the-new-hospital-the-renovated-and-expanded-mcveigh-home/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/carve-the-peg-by-looking-at-the-hole-eddie-looked-at-me-blankly-and-i/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/she-bid-me-to-look-out-on-the-lawn-at-the-leper-girls-who-were/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/she-had-never-been-afraid-of-the-dark-but-then-she-had-never-known-a/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/i-ve-come-to-believe-that-how-we-choose-to-live-with-pain-or/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“...and all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/and-all-they-could-do-was-sit-sleep-eat-and-be-reminded-day-after-day/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“But no - I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/but-no-i-was-his-wife-and-it-was-my-duty-to-share-his-pain-as-i/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/what-s-it-like-being-married-cold-feet-middle-of-the-night-you-re/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

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