“Yet the water-taxi captain didn’t budge. Instead, with his beady eyes shining full of wonder, he only stared and stared some more, and finally stared so unthinkably hard that he tipped face-first into the harbor.”
“The whole ritual is like, you’ve got this idea in your mind. And the idea will be there for a couple days, sometimes a couple weeks. It’s like it’s always there. You’re haunted. If you cannot get it out, you feel really bad. You cannot eat. You cannot sleep.”
Hurry up, a lion that dies at noon
Must be skinned before sunset
My life has all been centered on my children. Time’s flashed by before I’ve had a chance to reflect.
Once again, Jung Chang brings the female experience into the spotlight, but instead of focusing on the uncommon lives of common people, this time she introduces three extraordinary women who helped shape 20th century China.
“I feel like it’s been such a long life for me already, and I barely remember anything from my childhood.”
For March, Spittoon Monthly takes a look back over all the amazing writers who’ve graced our pixels in the past year and a half.