Equatorial Sunshine Quotes

“I can't remember how we went wrong/So I replay different versions/Of our sudden swan song/On memory's silent stage - Watch, listen and weep.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“The girl leaned into her phone, scrolling through picture after picture of pretty things, pretty travels and pretty girls. I watched her get sucked in, with each glimpse into perfect worlds awakening a silent dissatisfaction with her own. For what is Instagram, but a reminder of the life we do not have? Sometimes we like to torture ourselves.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“My eyes ache from throwing myself into Literature to read you away”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“Great beauty is camera shy, and like you, it escaped my lenses.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“This is what people used to do, when they fell in love with a thing or place, knowing they could only live the moment once. Pictures take the pressure off experience: one click and we would possess those things forever. When someone takes lots of pictures, it means they have a huge appetite for beauty, and an equal fear of losing it.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“And perhaps it is because time is being multiplied that these 5 months spent missing you really feels like 10, and as the world turns quicker into multiples of 3, 4 and 5 I worry how my little ache will stretch on and on.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“I am the collector of past selves, curator of the museum of old-yous. I take care that those originals never disapear, even if new versions have come about. I will remember you. You will remember me, as how you knew me in our time. Someday, aeons into our future, through greying hair and gold-rimmed glasses, we'll examine the dusty memories, wondering how these mythical people become extinct,”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“Friends, lovers, pets and places - if anyone desired immortality, they could come to meet me, and let me fall in love with them.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine

“Maybe a Soulmate isn't the person you grow old with together but one who reveals to you bits of yourself you never knew before. Soulmates are passing lights cast into your soul so you may look into yourself and see.”
― Wong Su Ann, Equatorial Sunshine