Author: Shamini Flint

Cites

• Charles Dickens (2)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2008) Fiction, Asian Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
  • IN: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2009) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaya (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2008) Fiction, Asian Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdake!
    FROM: Proclamation of Independence, (1957), Speech, Malaysia
• Eileen Garrett (1)
  • IN: Criminal Minds (2007) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: I asked these spirit figures if I was seeing them or if I was seeing what was in my own brain. They answered, "both."
    FROM: NULL, (1967), Speech, Ireland
• Chin Peng (1)
  • IN: The Undone Years (2012) Historical Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Looking back over the years, I have always been careful not to fall into the trap of romanticising the past. There has, after all, been very little in my life that would inspire the mendacity of nostalgia.
    FROM: My Side of History, (2003), Book, Malaysia
• Wilfred Owen (1)
  • IN: The Undone Years (2012) Historical Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: "Strange, friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn." / "None," said the other, "Save the undone years."
    FROM: Strange Meeting, (1919), Poem, UK
• Pol Pot (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (2013) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
    FROM: NULL, (1997), Quote, Cambodia
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (2009) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is draowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
    FROM: The Second Coming, (1920), Poem, Ireland
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villany (2010) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death.
    FROM: Singapore Penal Code, (1872), Book, Singapore
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villany (2010) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: No man is an island, entire of itself... / any man's death diminishes me, / because I am involved in mankind; / and therefore never send to know / for whom the bell tolls; / it tolls for thee.
    FROM: Meditation XVII, (1624), Poem, UK
• Tunku Abdul Rahman (1)
  • IN: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2009) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
    FROM: Proclamation of independence, (1957), Speech, Malaysia
• Xiaoping Deng (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Seek truth from facts
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China