Quote by Alan Brennert

“There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.”

— Alan Brennert

“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.”

— 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…

— Alan Brennert

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

— 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…

— Alan Brennert

“Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Alan Brennert

“She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.”

— 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.

— Alan Brennert