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.

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Humans see what they want to see.

Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.