Pung Quotes

#1. Ublala Pung grunted a laugh. 'They'd never find her if it was a manhunt.

Steven Erikson

#2. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"
"Peng you," I say.
"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.

Andrea Cheng

#3. My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen - especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit ... glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#4. My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Jessica Williams

#5. In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.

Alice Pung

#6. Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.

Alice Pung

#7. A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

Chris Pratt

#8. Life is nothing but high school. - Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Pung

#9. I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.

Pierce Brosnan

#10. Let earth receive her King!

Standard Works LLC

#11. I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.

Alice Pung

#12. I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

Marco Pierre White

#13. Reason would confront falsehoods with "solid principles [to] serve as the foundation for diametrically opposed truths,

Anonymous

#14. Never underestimate the power of a scented candle! declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.
Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia!

Alice Pung

#15. London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.

Alain Ducasse

#16. All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame

Alice Pung

#17. I'd never been much good at finding openings in conversations here. I treated them like stuffing envelopes- the moment a gap appeared, I was worried I'd insert the wrong thing and it would sealed and delivered. Or I'd insert something too large to fit through the post, and it would not be accepted

Alice Pung

#18. A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

Dean Cain

#19. People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.

Alice Pung

#20. I'm a Kansan by residence, a Missourian by employment, a Louisianan by birth, Southern by the grace of God, and a Tybee Islander at heart.

Dick Peterson

#21. Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Milan Kundera

#22. As a general rule, teenage girls never, ever see solitude as a choice.

Alice Pung