"My friends on the mainland ...think just b'coz I live in Hawai'i...I live in paradise. Like a permanent vacation, think we're all just out there, sipping mai tai's, shak'n our hips and catching waves. Are they insane? They think we're immune to life? How can they possibly think our families are less screwed up. Our cancers are less fatal, our heartaches are less painful. Hell, I haven't been on a surfboard in 15 yrs. For the last 23 days, I've been living in a Paradise of IVs and urine bags and endotracheal tubes. Paradise ... Paradise can go fuck itself......"
"Somehow it feels natural to find a daughter of mine on a different island. A family seems exactly like an archipelago. All part of the same,whole,but still separate and alone.And always drifting slowly apart."