Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to preten…

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to…

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it shoul…

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the pho…

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings