O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture.

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

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.

It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

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

With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

Alan Brennert

Quotes by Alan Brennert

Written By Alan Brennert

Written By Alan Brennert

Written By Alan Brennert

Written By Alan Brennert

Written By Alan Brennert

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