But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.

Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.

I brought seaweed snacks from home, ' chimed in another kid. "Seaweed got iron, right?"'I don't think the teachers meant that kind of iron, ' said Hui Ann.

The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.