Best New Singaporean Short Stories Quotes

“There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two to hold the memory?”
― Stephanie Ye, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

“She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the beach—just as now she wondered why the light from the lighthouse seemed to be coming from the landward side of the expressway. “I thought a lighthouse is out at sea.”
― Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

“The day the earth-moving machines arrived, it was as if aliens had invaded Earth. Overnight they appeared, diggers with huge scoops, plodding their slow and ancient ways across the landscape. By the next week they had multiplied and evolved into diverse forms—cranes with long arms, bulldozers and levellers, an assortment of lorries. All day they worked towards some unseen design, creating and removing debris, their latticework of tracks remaking and writing over the space. Untenanted and vulnerable, the attap huts offered no resistance.”
― Karen Kwek, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

“Dear family,

I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine”
― Koh Choon Hwee, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One