Vicki Wong

“Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni: A Novel

“In addition there is the fact that this girl's application in drawing seashells denotes in her a search for formal perfection which the world can and therefore must attain; I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; Therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.”
― Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

“Growing up is not just about moving forward, but also an endless cycle of returning to our childhood wonders and wounds.”
― Silvery Afternoon, All I hear is the symphony