{"quotes":[{"text":"The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":1844,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.","author":"Mohamed Latiff Mohamed","tags":["confrontation","cultural-medallion","fiction","indonesia","konfrontasi","malaysia","novel","singapore"],"id":11083,"author_id":"Mohamed+Latiff+Mohamed"},{"text":"But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":14948,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","magic","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":25999,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"The tabloids wanted to know whether the dragon was receiving benefits. The gossip magazines claimed to have found a woman who was bearing the dragon's baby. The fashion magazines did spreads on draconian style. This apparently consisted of gaunt models with sunken eyes, swathed in clouds of chiffon and arranged in awkwardly erotic positions on piles of gold coins.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":26236,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and, via the Internet, to many other metal boxes full of wires). Someone told me most of the Internet is stored in a warehouse somewhere in North Carolina. I don’t know enough about technology to gauge if this is true, but it made me realise how little I actually understand about the world I inhabit. The world of Dr Wong’s childhood was significantly smaller than mine, but he understood every square inch of it.","author":"Jeremy Tiang","tags":["computer","internet","malaysia","singapore","technology","translation","wong-yoon-wah"],"id":37794,"author_id":"Jeremy+Tiang"},{"text":"He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":67580,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through the heat of the day rippled across the reflective surface, breaking it into a million diamonds of yellow-white light.","author":"Emma Bamford","tags":["malaysia","nature","peace","travel"],"id":75859,"author_id":"Emma+Bamford"},{"text":"I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural"],"id":93249,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"},{"text":"Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.","author":"Zen Cho","tags":["ghosts","legend","malaysia","myth","spirits","supernatural-mystery"],"id":116919,"author_id":"Zen+Cho"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}