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

“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

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

“one room full of poisonous flowers you water convince yourself this is a form of motherhood to love what you can’t touch”
― K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories