Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

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.

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of vou!

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

You get what you get when you get it.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.