Zen Cho Quotes

The woman leant forward, her eyes flashing, a smile both triumphant and tender curving her mouth."You are *my* daughter," she said. "Can there be any doubt that you will be brilliant -- audacious -- and free?"The vision disappeared. She had been so vital, so overflowing with life and energy, that her going seemed to leave the room dark.

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

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.

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

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

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.

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.