"That kid's hungry," Koro Apirana would say.
"Yeah." Nanny Flowers would turn to us. "She's hungry fo him, the old paka. Hungry for his love."
=>외서를 읽고 알라딘에 외서가 없어 번역본에 남깁니다.-34쪽
"Them's the rules," Koro Apirana had told her.
"I know, but rules are made to be broden." she had replied in a huff.-41쪽
"I'll have to go," said Jeff. I knew he was reluctant to do so. Indeed, one of the reasons why he had come to Sydney was that it was as far from his family as he could get. He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves. "But it looks like all my chickens are coming home to roost," Jeff said ruefully.
"Family is family," I said.-66쪽
She conveyed how grateful she was to livein Whangara and that her main aim in life was to fulfill the wishes of her grandfather and of the tribe.
And I felt so proud of her, so proud, and so sad that Koro Apirana was not there to hear how much she loved him.-87쪽
Quietly, Kahu began to weep. She wept because she was frightened. She wept because Paka would die if the whale died. She wept because she was lonely. She wept because she loved her baby sister and her father and Ana. She wept because Nanny Flowers wouldn't have anyone to help her in the vegetable garden. She wept because Koro Apirana didn't love her. and she also wept because she didn't know what dying was like.-129쪽
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