Papida

“Except Ma doesn't measure her life in years but in languages: Tayal and Yilan Creole in the indigo fields were she was born blue-assed and fish-eyed, Japanese during the war, Mandarin in her Nationalist-eaten city. Each language was worn outside her body, clasped around her throat like a collar.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“My mother said that keeping a clean home was a sign of wealth and keeping a husband was a sign of stupidity.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“All losses come in threes”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary