Parvathi Quotes & Sayings

How does the living organism avoid decay? The obvious answer is: By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating. The technical term is metabolism. The Greek word () means change or exchange. Exchange of what? — Erwin Schrodinger

Fate has a way of finding us even when we hide. — Sarah Noffke

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit. — M. Scott Peck

An affair should be like a password. You should have one, but you shouldn't let the world know about it! — Toffee

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. — George Du Maurier

You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one — David Mitchell

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

A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying, and not trouble yourself too much with working out why. You can simply concentrate on helping them feel better. — Nathan Filer