Isabel Yap > Quotes

“Kawataro,” she says, tears prickling at the corner of her eyes. “Kawataro, why did you save me?” “Kindness is always worth saving.”
― Isabel Yap, A Cup of Salt Tears

“What's this for?" A measured tone, that hopefully communicated: stop doing this to me, I'm dying.”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“The first time she fell in love with Tetsuya, she was making tea. The first time she fell in love, she was drowning in a river.”
― Isabel Yap, A Cup of Salt Tears

“I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know.”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“Have you ever noticed yourself on your knees and thought Oh, I don't like this?”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“Why should it matter so little, what I want, what I'd fight the universe for?”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“Ese no es Jesús, tonto. [...] San Isidro Labrador. El patrón de granjeros y campesinos”
― Victoria Isabel Yap, Milagroso