4 Quotes by Amy Winters-Voss

Stories are like air, we can't do without them.

Once in the mob, always in the mob. The tattoos mark you for life.

When I reach to pick up the glass pieces, my heart sinks as the distinctive blue-black wave and red maple leaf designs of my irezumi tattoo sleeve show through the transparent wet fabric of my shirt. Despite the deafening silence, the hint of the ink that marks my past wails like a siren, warning all in my vicinity.

Letting the old swagger back into my step lacks the feeling of control it used to give as I walk past neighborhoods of traditional and modern housing.