S.P. Somtow > Quotes

“Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.”
― S.P. Somtow, Dragon's Fin Soup and Other Modern Siamese Fables

“You are a king," she whispered from behind her veils, "but you are also a man. Men burn but women smolder; always we are the stronger, and your subjugation of us is an illusion.”
― S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse

“The word bara has no gender,” I said. “And the world elohim might be plural. What if the real meaning was, ‘In the beginning, she created the gods?”
― S.P. Somtow, Other Edens: Novellas of the Fall

“I know there is a special bond between us, one that the others envy and resent; it is because she and I both stand at the gateway, I of my life, she of her death, and we both know that it is a revolving door.”
― S.P. Somtow, Jasmine Nights

“Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.”
― S.P. Somtow, Monsters in Our Midst