Portia

“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

“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.

“Every relationship is just practice for parting.”
― K-Ming Chang, Harvill Secker Cecilia.

“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