11 Quotes by Joy Kogawa

Elsewhere, people like Aunt Emily clack away at their typewriters, spreading words like buckshot, aiming at the shadow in the sky.

Once I came across two ideographs for the word “love.” The first contained the root words “heart” and “hand” and “action”-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for “passionate love,” was formed of “heart,” “to tell,” and “a long thread.