Simile #1
"People assume that just because you don't stand as straight as a sapling, you're deaf." -pg.1
Simile #2
"In my early childhood, my ba was like a river, flowing on and on and on with me through the days, and keeping me safe at night." -pg.3
Simile #3
"Out I came, sliding from my mother like an otter from a riverbank." -pg.13
Metaphor #1
"I long to hold my own children, and their children if they exist, and I miss them the way I'd miss limbs from my own body." -pg.2
Metaphor #2
"Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied." -pg.7
Metaphor #3
"Honey, I said, my life is a ghost story." -pg.4
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