Dragonfruit

I hope that the foolish things we do when we're sixteen, seventeen, twenty, whenever - I hope they don't define who we are forever.

May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and their ancestors that loneliness never hold you. His kingdom your own beloved child of the gods.

We are defined by our hardships, Hanaleiarihi, and how we face them. We are made stronger or weaker by those we hold closest to us.

We are defined by our hardships, and how we face them. We are made stronger or weaker by those we hold closest to us.

his face was the red of a boiled crab shell.

We do not keep a tally with the people we care about. Our family, our friends. We help them because we love them, and we expect nothing in return.

It was one thing to pretend she was from nowhere. It was another to understand exactly where she came from and know she could never return.

There’s nothing for you on Tamarind, Hanalei. Your family’s dead. You’re all alone. No one’s coming for you. Captain Bragadin had been wrong. She was not alone. Someone had come for her.

sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another

Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her

Tamarind was a matriarchal society. There, the women ruled.