65 Quotes by Zen Cho

Zacharias’s study bore the marks of his predecessors, whose taste had run decidedly stoicheiotical. They had had a fondness for skulls with burning lights in their eye sockets, crystal balls in which mysterious shapes came and went, and dark velvet window curtains traced with obscure runes.

Why, all the greatest magic comes down to blood,” said Mak Genggang. “And who knows blood better than a woman?

You can’t ever tell people you think you are pretty. Even if you are pretty you have to flutter and be modest. Fortunately here nobody thinks I am pretty, so my thinking I am pretty is almost an act of defiance; it makes me feel quite noble.

She had still had the loved child’s belief that it would not be allowed for anything too bad to happen to her.

I should advise you not to stop there, but set fire to his house, too, and sell his children to pirates. That is the only way he will learn.

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.

Siew Tsin had not given much thought to what happened in the afterlife until the afterlife happened to her.

This time, let us hope you will get to be old,” she said. “It is a great suffering to know youth only.

Affection there had always been between them, whatever their disagreements – and there had been more of these than Zacharias had permitted Sir Stephen to know.