"She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes."
- Jeremy Tiang
"Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing."
- Evan Adam Ang
"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 s..."
- Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
"But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good."
- Bjorn Shen
"Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.And the night continued, cold and da..."
- You Jin
"In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography."
- Raphael Millet
"I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly."