May Parvathi Quotes & Sayings

Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches. — Robert Kennedy

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. — Attica Locke

How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed. — David Letterman

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. — Jen Hatmaker

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature. — Ben Jonson

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera. — Peter Schjeldahl

The trouble with you," Parvathi said with a wisdom beyond her years, "Is that you don't know who you want to be. Girl or boy. Chinese or Malay."

"Ya-lah you!" Fatima said. "No wonder the kids in your school call you OCBC."

There was a bank in Singapore called the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC in short. So some cruel kid in school played on the initials of the bank to make fun of Peranakans.

They jeered, "Orang Cina Bukan Cina." The words translated as Chinese person, not Chinese. — Josephine Chia

You will be on of those gods without magic powers. What are they called? King. — Maggie Stiefvater