Viola Briatková

“The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.”
― Xinran, Miss Chopsticks

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

“Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....”
― Xinran, The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices