Status Updates From Edinburgh

I love how the second a woman is introduced her breast size/shape is immediately mentioned. Even if she’s a drawing. I’m so close to never picking this up again.

I say nothing because that is what nothing says. I am nothing, a O, an outline around a hole.

After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Schools. My first language is Japanese, he tells me. English far away. But, okay. Be like a fox, he says. Okay. Sometimes, right after he told me, I would look at him and wonder what it felt like, to have the print of your enemy all the way inside you, right into the way you shaped your thoughts. But I know now.

i love picking up this book and putting it down three pages later to just Sit and Breathe