Zen Cho Quotes

It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.

~ Zen Cho

What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?

~ Zen Cho

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

~ Zen Cho

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

~ Zen Cho

Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

~ Zen Cho

The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

~ Zen Cho

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

~ Zen Cho

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

~ Zen Cho

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

~ Zen Cho

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.

~ Zen Cho

The tabloids wanted to know whether the dragon was receiving benefits. The gossip magazines claimed to have found a woman who was bearing the dragon's baby. The fashion magazines did spreads on draconian style. This apparently consisted of gaunt models with sunken eyes, swathed in clouds of chiffon and arranged in awkwardly erotic positions on piles of gold coins.

~ Zen Cho

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.

~ Zen Cho

The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.

~ Zen Cho

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

~ Zen Cho

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

~ Zen Cho

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

~ Zen Cho

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not be allowed to fall in love or be honest? Surely not everything had to wait for university and a good job. Passion and truth had to trump even those things.

~ Zen Cho