Cempedak Quotes

#1. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

Zen Cho

#2. One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

#3. We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

John F. Kennedy

#4. I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Pierre Corneille

#5. No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Voltaire

#6. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Hafez

#7. And cried. I must have looked wildly pathetic because he said, "I have some French fries in there if you want them." I thought that was such a weird thing to offer, but frankly, I'm exactly the sort of person to be comforted by French fries, so I ate them.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

P.D. James

#9. Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#10. 1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Joyce Meyer

#11. I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

Joe Manganiello

#12. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

#13. I have been reading a delightful, though perhaps rather bitchy new book by Fr. Stephenson about Walsingham and Fr. H.P. There is a vignette of H.P. instructing the Sunday school children on what to do when confronted with an unbaptized person dying in a railway carriage.

Hazel Holt