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“All she has left are things unwanted, things unloved.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“There was no room left in her for anger. Something within her tipped and cracked.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“All she could think was: I will be here forever. I will never be able to get away.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“More insidious than those moments of outright hostility, though, and maybe more powerful, are the constant, low-level reminders that you're different. Many of us feel different in some way, but it's really jarring when one of your differences is obvious at a glance—other people can tell you're different simply by looking at you . . . Even when you feel like you belong, other people's reactions—even stares and offhand remarks—can make you feel that you don't, startlingly often.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“I know what to do . . . I just can't do it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Please, Marilyn thinks. In this word is all she cannot phrase, even to herself. Please come back, please let me start over, please stay. Please.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Lydia felt her heart in her chest like a pellet of ice, sliding down out of reach.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Looking out over the lake, she could not know that in three months she would be at its bottom.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Don't, she wanted to say, though she didn't know: don't what? She knew only that something was about to happen, and that nothing she could say or do would prevent it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Later, when they look back on this last evening, the family will remember almost nothing. So many things will be pared away by the sadness to come.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He had been the only one listening for so long.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Later she would wonder if this had made her miss her chance, or if she had ever had a chance at all.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He never completed the sentence, but in his imagined future, he floated away, untethered.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“1981 glistening in his eyes like a beautiful far-off star.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“James is all too familiar with this kind of forgetting . . . he has felt it every day—that short-lived lull, then the sharp nudge to the ribs that reminded you that you didn't belong.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He remembers again, and he is always angrier than before.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“If she were a white girl . . . none of this would ever have happened.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“James remembers: long ago, when they were young and the worst thing they could imagine was not being together . . . That moment, that connection, seems far away and small now, like something that happened in another life.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“If she cries . . . it won't be tears. It will be little drops of blood.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Different has always been a brand on his forehead, blazoned there between the eyes. It has tinted his entire life, this word; it has left its smudgy fingerprints on everything.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“. . . plugging her ears by filling her head with dreams.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“The rush of things she wanted to say churned in her head.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Beneath the smoke, Jack smelled as if he had just been out in the woods, leafy and green. He smelled the way velvet felt, something you wanted to run your hands over and then press to your face. In that moment Lydia's mind fast-forwarded, the way movies did. Past them clambering into the backseat, tumbling over one another, their hands too slow for their desires. Past untying the knot at the nape of her neck, past the peeling away of clothing, past Jack's body hovering over hers. All the things she had never experienced and, in truth, could barely imagine.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“She knew that he was telling the truth, that this had been the truth for a long, long time.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“She knew at last where everything had gone wrong. And she knew where she had to go.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“It is not too late, he thinks . . . Not yet the end.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He can't know what it was like, not the first time, not the last. He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him. Whether she thought he'd failed her, or whether she wanted him to let her go. This, more than anything, makes him feel that she is gone.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“I remember a distinct sense of restlessness in the air while I was growing up, a feeling that if you wanted an exciting or important or interesting life, you needed to escape.”
― Celeste Ng

“. . . the feeling that the place you're in is too small.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You