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Celeste Ng Quotes

born 1980 United States

Celeste Ng (born July 30, 1980) is an American author.

United States
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15 quotes

Here is a prayer: As you gain power, may you never forget what it’s like to not have power.

one way to think of privilege is who’s allowed to make mistakes.

“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.” (Chapter 4, p42)

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you” (p193)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break. (p283)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art. (p99)

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

To those out on their own paths, setting little fires

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it. (p273)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.” (chapter 15 p250)

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

As a former debater, I think that the “debate” mentality is a huge part of the problems in our public discourse. Debate—which many aspiring lawyers do in school—teaches you to treat everything like an academic thought experiment, rather than real issues that affect actual humans.

Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say. (p164)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales. (p271)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

ANGER IS FEAR’S BODYGUARD, a poster in the hospital had read (Chapter 9, p110)

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love? (Chapter 16, p258)

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast. (first lines)

Everything I Never Told You (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Celeste Ng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.