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“I wonder...if a life lived only in the mind is any less intense? If all the senses are engaged what is lost, but fact?”

Reading Imagination

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?”

Grief Knowing Privacy

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“We love that which we corrupt.”

Evil Corruption

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“Beware of logic.”

Logic Hawaii Logical Thinking

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.”

Life And Living Living In The Present

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.”

Power Diversity Image

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.”

Mothers Mothers And Daughters

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us.”

Guilt Mothers Mothers And Daughters

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....”

Time Memories Family Childhood Hawaii Childhood Memories Saga Ohana

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“The diaries also revealed a deeply sensitive, intelligent woman, one who had hoped to start a college for Hawaiian women, affording them the 'same education as men.' She had planned to open a bank for women, enabling them to handle their own financial affairs. She recognized the need for more female lawyers and physicians, the need for women's rights over their bodies, and their destinies. And lastly, though she had a fondness for men, she felt women 'basically didn't need them.”

Feminism Hawaii Hawaiian Royalty Queen Lili Uokalani

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“I used to think Ming was her favorite. But she’s grown too private, too remote. Rachel is lost. And I am too haolefied, what my mother taught me, so we could survive in that other world, the one that killed her”

Mixed Race Hybridity Pacific Islands Colonial Mimicry

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues

“Yes. Japan will overrun us," the scholar said. "But we will turn them into Chinese. Give us five hundred years. You wait.”

Ww2 Pacific War

Book:Song of the Exile

Source: Song of the Exile

“When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.”

Hate Racism Bigotry

Book:Shark Dialogues

Source: Shark Dialogues