Portia

“It’s sweet to feel the open road falling away from us, knowing we will, at its end, come to the sea.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“Sometimes she would say, The sun is a meatball, and I would joke by replying, And what is the daughter, and she would look at me and say, The daughter is a cutting board.”
― K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

“Some mothers are fishhooks—they’re shaped to raise you, raise you out of the water for slaughter.”
― K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

“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