“I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.”

“Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.”

“He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.”

“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.”

“I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.”

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

“Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out.Granted, I had tried to steal her Tiara of Clairvoyance.”

“I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.”

“I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.”

“Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.”

“Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in," said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.”