More by Celeste Ng
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)
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