Best Epigram Books Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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 our game plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.”

Food Cookbook Restaurant Epigram Books Artichoke Recipe Book Bjorn Shen

Book:Artichoke: Recipes & Stories from Singapore's Most Rebellious Kitchen

Source: Artichoke: Recipes & Stories from Singapore's Most Rebellious Kitchen

“They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.”

Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Translation Epigram Books Sglit Widower Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed The Widower

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.”

Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Translation Epigram Books Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed The Widower

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.”

Love Death Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Singapore Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Singapore Poland Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin In Time Out Of Place

Book:In Time, Out of Place

Source: In Time, Out of Place

“The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Singapore Translation Czech Republic Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin In Time Out Of Place

Book:In Time, Out of Place

Source: In Time, Out of Place

“In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.”

Photography Singapore Portrait Epigram Books Singaporean 100 Singaporeans Raphael Millet Wesley Loh Wee Editions

Author:Raphael Millet

“Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes”

Nature Green Gardening Singapore Epigram Books Gardeners Log Thien

Book:A Gardener's Log

Source: A Gardener's Log

“Turn off the light! Who? Not me, but you!”

Korea Singapore Translation Epigram Books Blanket Travel Kim Da Jeong

Book:Blanket Travel

Source: Blanket Travel

“Former spider boys came from all walks of life—they ranged from homeless street kids and school dropouts to decent kids, but the best ones were those who had gone anywhere and everywhere to search out and capture their fighting spiders; they even ventured into dangerous bushes infested with black mambas. These boys were risk-takers and crowd-pullers, always on the move, always looking for worthy opponents with which to fight their spiders.”

Singapore Epigram Books Sglit Big Mole Ming Cher

Book:Big Mole

Source: Big Mole

“Many years later, Sophia will think of this night, and how close she was to tears. She will wonder how she could have allowed herself to arrive there, but also feel a twinge of loss for the girl still capable of losing control.”

Short Stories Singapore Epigram Books Sglit Jeremy Tiang It Never Rains On National Day

Book:It Never Rains on National Day

Source: It Never Rains on National Day

“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.”

Fiction Short Stories Singapore Zouk Epigram Books Jeremy Tiang It Never Rains On National Day

Book:It Never Rains on National Day

Source: It Never Rains on National Day

“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.”

Literature Fiction Short Stories Singapore Lighthouse Epigram Books

Book:Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

Source: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

“So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it’s also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.”

Rebel Cookbook Epigram Books Artichoke Recipe Book Bjorn Shen

Book:Artichoke: Recipes & Stories from Singapore's Most Rebellious Kitchen

Source: Artichoke: Recipes & Stories from Singapore's Most Rebellious Kitchen

“Look, Cha Cha!” says Bo Bo. “We’re here at our new home!” Cha Cha shrugs her shoulders as she takes her first look at the Mandai Zoo.”

Epigram Books Panda Patrick Yee Bo Bo And Cha Cha Jason Erik Lundberg

Book:A New Home for Bo Bo and Cha Cha

Source: A New Home for Bo Bo and Cha Cha

“Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Epigram Books Sglit Ebbnsss O Thiam Chin

Book:Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

Source: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

“There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.”

Epigram Books Sglit Ebfp Epigram Books Fiction Prize Gimme Lao Sebastian Sim

Book:Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao!

Source: Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao!

“Among the wartime survivors was a four-year-old Makassan girl with a large mole dangling like a pigeon egg under her left eye, who was looking for her lost parents. She was picked up by a brothel woman, but later ran away to live among street boys left homeless by the war. They gave her the nickname Big Mole.”

Epigram Books Sglit Big Mole Ming Cher

Book:Big Mole

Source: Big Mole

“I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.”

Winter Middle East Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin Death By Perfume Mongkol Sheds Tears

Book:Death by Perfume

Source: Death by Perfume

“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 dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.”

Night Middle East Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin Death By Perfume Mongkol Sheds Tears

Book:Death by Perfume

Source: Death by Perfume

“One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.”

Fiction Prose Short Story Short Stories Speculative Fiction Epigram Books Lontar Lontar 5 Ng Yi Sheng

Book:LONTAR #5

Source: LONTAR #5

“As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Speculative Fiction Epigram Books Running Shoes Lontar Ken Liu Lontar 6

Book:LONTAR #6

Source: LONTAR #6

“Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Fade Speculative Fiction Epigram Books Lontar Eliza Victoria Lontar 4

Book:LONTAR #4

Source: LONTAR #4

“Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.”

Fiction Short Story Epigram Books Ebbnsss Evan Adam Ang

Book:Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

Source: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

“But we will not bury our mother. We have no interest in putting her bones in soft ground, no desire for memorials and platitudes, no feelings attached to the organic detritus of her terminated existence.”

Fiction Short Stories Epigram Books Ebbnsss Bnsss2 Jy Yang Shot Story

Book:Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

Source: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two