Quotes from Jessica Zafra

There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.

Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.

Cold, dispassionate logic is admirable, but when people are starving and desperate, it's just cruel.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

Life is a series of random collisions.

What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

The reason men rule is because women let them.