Postcards Quotes

“For now, we will watch the seagulls swallow paper, Appa and I. We will laugh and laugh, because the snow is still soft and we are still here.”
― Elane Kim, Postcards

“I would realize that Appa had not been watching the walls all those years, but the smallness of his reflection in my face. That hidden in his crooked body was an even crookeder man, or, at the very least, the attempt of a man to transform himself into a bird, an egg, a snow crab, a father—anything that could fly or die trying.”
― Elane Kim, Postcards

“Sometimes, in the quiet of the rain, I would catalog what I had left behind: milk swirling in pale ceramic bowls, elbows at the table, cicada songs, soft orange wind.”
― Elane Kim, Postcards

“Back then, the mornings were warm and melting, the kind that invited light.”
― Elane Kim, Postcards