It is a mother’s duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.
What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?
… 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.
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.
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.
I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.
I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.
I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
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 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.
The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.
But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.
He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.