“My mother told me that dead men don't sing”
“The man who told my mother that I am dead while alive is indirectly asking for her death.”
“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
“My mother always advised me not to trust a dead person.”
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”
“People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.”