Portia

“Every relationship is just practice for parting.”
― 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

“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

“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