Quotes from Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.

SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE! -on a stone in Kalaupapa

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

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