Quotes & Sayings About Molokai

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles; — Mark Twain

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles. — Susanna Moore

Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say. — Neal Shusterman

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them. — Kirby Wright