“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again. Tuesday,” — Zen Cho Love Copy Share Image
“I felt like a fox backed into a corner, with the yelping of the hounds coming closer.” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“Being good-looking and interesting and having the heavy-lidded gaze of a romantic tapir does not excuse writing a foolish book. Perhaps” — Zen Cho Books Copy Share Image
“But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two are quite different… — Zen Cho Different emotions Copy Share Image
“It looked like all forest spirits—tall, pointy ears, big smile. It didn't look male or female. Forest spirits don't have this concept.… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“You are having a baby,' he said. 'I certainly hope it turns out to be a baby,' I agreed.” — Zen Cho Having a baby Copy Share Image
“Resignation to unhappiness didn't come naturally—she had to learn it.” — Zen Cho Sadness Copy Share Image
“Siew Tsin had not given much thought to what happened in the afterlife until the afterlife happened to her.” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“She had still had the loved child's belief that it would not be allowed for anything too bad to happen to her.” — Zen Cho Children Copy Share Image
“For a celebrity he has an awful excess of sensibility, and is very anxious about one's opinion of him. Perhaps it comes… — Zen Cho Art Copy Share Image
“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a… — Zen Cho Mr rochester Copy Share Image
“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded… — Zen Cho Age Copy Share Image
“It is dreadful when people are good-looking and pay attention to you.” — Zen Cho Pay attention Copy Share Image
“You can't ever tell people you think you are pretty. Even if you are pretty you have to flutter and be modest.… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met… — Zen Cho Colonialism Copy Share Image
