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.

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.

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.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.