Alyssa Wong > Quotes

“Diversity isn’t a trend; it’s a constant battle to change an existing culture that shuts us out.”
― Alyssa Wong

“I would give you only the best things. The kindness you deserved, the body you wanted, a way out that didn’t end with the horizon line ripped open, possibilities pouring out like loose stuffing, my world shrieking to a halt. I would have fixed everything.”
― Alyssa Wong, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

“All the things that my friends expected me to say—the city’s great, it’s exciting, I’m so lucky to live here, I love it—flashed through my head. So did the things I’d never told anyone, that I couldn’t tell anyone, because they wouldn’t want to hear it. How the loneliness was crippling; how I’d been fired from three part-time jobs by now; how every day, on my way to class, I walked past the same madman in the tunnel moaning for Jesus, a mess of languages spilling from his bloody lips, past a banner ad that read: GET AWAY WITHOUT LEAVING NEW YORK.

“It’s different,” I’d said at last. I don’t know who I am without you, I didn’t say.

“I understand,” Melanie had replied. I could tell that she did.”
― Alyssa Wong, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

“It was sunset, and the flat, highway-veined city was just beginning to glimmer with electric light, civilization pulsing across the ground in arteries, in fractals.”
― Alyssa Wong, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

“Superstition is one of the first security systems ever invented.”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 1: Fortune and Fate

“Kho dresses like a Sith dipped in glitter. There’s no way they should be able to quietly assassinate anyone.”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #4

“We were classmates a long time ago. There was a lot going on back then, but-“

“Isn’t there always with you? Speaking of which, how’s your father? You know, the ethical, responsible archaeologist?”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 1: Fortune and Fate

“The Force moves through me like a storm. It sings in me like lightning. Filling me with fire. Burning me away until I am empty of everything I don’t need.”
― Alyssa Wong

“Seven to reach beyond the veil…
…while six hold lights ot mark the trail.
Five to bend both heart and mind…
…Four to seek, but three to find.
At the heart lies life eternal—
—Machine and blood complete the circle.
Two’s false division shall be undone—
Without the Force all are made one.
Wake the spark beneath the flesh…
…And then, at last, lay death to rest.”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 4: Crimson Reign

“They were so nice. What happened?

“Well, I do ruin everything I touch.”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 4: Crimson Reign