He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

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.

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

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.