"The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion."

“McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.”

“Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

“When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”

“I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.”

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings”

“Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.