Quotes about Singapore

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If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There — Cyril Wong, Below: Absence: Poems
Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother w — Jon Gresham, We Rose Up Slowly
No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place fo — Kyoko Yoshida
We were always eating expired things. Milk, bread, biscuits, cake. We forgot about them as they sat around the house and — Cheryl Julia Lee, We Were Always Eating Expired Things
She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach las — Mahita Vas, Rain Tree
We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety th — Kyoko Yoshida
You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still ali — Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antago — Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could — Kyoko Yoshida
I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin, In Time, Out of Place
The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friend — You Jin, In Time, Out of Place
Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was abla — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower
She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy — Jeremy Tiang, It Never Rains on National Day
There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the str — Chew Chia Shao Wei, The Rock and the Bird
Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because — Justin Ker, The Space Between the Raindrops
Perhaps she moves too slowly now, or the world moves too fast for her. She enters the lift, a giant wheel turns and stee — Justin Ker, The Space Between the Raindrops
I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, lif — Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low — Gregory Nalpon, The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays
In its basic form, nursing can be seen as a duty, but beyond the incessant operational activities that lay the foundatio — Katherine Soh, Nurse Molly Returns
There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ce — Stephanie Ye, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One