Stephanie Ye > Quotes

“There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two to hold the memory?”
― Stephanie Ye, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, loveable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Stephanie Ye, From the Belly of the Cat