The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo Quotes

“But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two are quite different emotions.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“You are having a baby,' he said.

'I certainly hope it turns out to be a baby,' I agreed.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“You can't ever tell people you think you are pretty. Even if you are pretty you have to flutter and be modest. Fortunately here nobody thinks I am pretty, so my thinking I am pretty is almost an act of defiance; it makes me feel quite noble.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met a Briton to whom the thought had occurred that perhaps I spoke English because I am from one of their colonies. It is as if I were a piece of chess in a game played by people who never look down at their fingers.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again.   Tuesday,”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“I felt like a fox backed into a corner, with the yelping of the hounds coming closer.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“For a celebrity he has an awful excess of sensibility, and is very anxious about one's opinion of him. Perhaps it comes of being an artist.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“It is dreadful when people are good-looking and pay attention to you.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“She has a passionate hunger for youth.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her years snatched away from her.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“I am reading a terrible sententious book called The Wedding of Herbert Mimnaugh. Firstly, what sort of a name is Herbert and why would a parent with any trace of natural affection wish to afflict their child with such a name? Herbert's parents do not feature prominently in the book when this choice alone makes it obvious that they are the most interesting people in it.”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a Bronte was completely the wrong thing to be reading, unless it were an Anne. I should have been reading George Eliot.)”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

“Being good-looking and interesting and having the heavy-lidded gaze of a romantic tapir does not excuse writing a foolish book. Perhaps”
― Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo