The Stone the Builders Rejected.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.