The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds Quotes

“Temper in a woman is only tolerated, never celebrated.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“Inside my soul there echoed the cry of a hundred elephants dying.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“My two worlds were alive: Chinese and Malay rolled into one, blended by the centuries that had passed.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“Instinct told me that men didn't like wives cleverer than them. Even my beloved Peng Choon, wonderful husband that he was, liked to think of himself as the smarter of us two, which for the sake of peace I allowed. What he said told me all I needed to know - 'Ai-yahh! That is rubbish-lah! You talk just like a woman!', as if talking like a woman were such a terrible affliction.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“Throughout, Mother ran in and out like a mare untethered.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“We should have no problem finding you a husband - provided you don't become known as a dragon.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

“Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.”
― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

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― Selina Siak Chin Yoke, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds