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

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

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.

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

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Never live life without a hope.

Any goal in life is attainable as long as one follows it consistently.

Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted

You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.

Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water.

How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.