Portia

“the eighth widow taught me how to play blackjack; the eighth widow taught me the suits and what they meant: King means husband, queen means wife, spade is the shovel she buries him with.”
― K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

“There are some stories you can’t tell during the day, because they’ve lived so long in the dark of your belly that they can’t ever survive the light outside.”
― K-Ming Chang, Harvill Secker Cecilia.

“We live inside languages we don’t know.”
― K-Ming Chang, Harvill Secker Cecilia.

“You don’t have to touch something to love it.”
― K-Ming Chang, Harvill Secker Cecilia.