Sg Lit Quotes

“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

“They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.”
― Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower

“The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.”
― You Jin, In Time, Out of Place

“I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.”
― Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower

“Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.”
― Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower

“I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.”
― You Jin, Death by Perfume

“Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.

Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.

And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.”
― You Jin, Death by Perfume