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

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.

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

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

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

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.

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

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.

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