Top 200 Celeste Ng Quotes (2024 Update)
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Celeste Ng Quote: “But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways...”

101. “But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways...”

Celeste Ng Quote: “If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.”

102. “If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.”

103. “She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?”

104. “You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she’d been and the child she’d become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.”

105. “You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she’d been and the child she’d become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Mia held her for a moment, buried her nose in the part of Pearl’s hair. Every time she did this, she was comforted by how Pearl smelled exactly the same. She smelled, Mia thought suddenly, of home, as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she’d carried alongside her.”

106. “Mia held her for a moment, buried her nose in the part of Pearl’s hair. Every time she did this, she was comforted by how Pearl smelled exactly the same. She smelled, Mia thought suddenly, of home, as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she’d carried alongside her.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia’s shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.”

107. “By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia’s shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Lexie was used to people wanting her opinion, to the point where she often assumed they did and just hadn’t quite said so.”

108. “Lexie was used to people wanting her opinion, to the point where she often assumed they did and just hadn’t quite said so.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths.”

109. “Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.”

110. “Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251.”

111. “The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.”

112. “A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Years might pass and they might change, both of them, but she was sure she would still know her own child, just as she would know herself, no matter how long it had been. She was certain of this. She would spend months, years, the rest of her life looking for her daughter, searching the face of every young woman she meet for as long as it took, searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers.”

113. “Years might pass and they might change, both of them, but she was sure she would still know her own child, just as she would know herself, no matter how long it had been. She was certain of this. She would spend months, years, the rest of her life looking for her daughter, searching the face of every young woman she meet for as long as it took, searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn’t imagine it.”

114. “To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn’t imagine it.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing.”

115. “You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Like after a prairie fire... It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow... People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.”

116. “Like after a prairie fire... It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow... People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Sometimes, just when you think everything’s gone, you find a way.”

117. “Sometimes, just when you think everything’s gone, you find a way.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, “What’s wrong with your eyes?” It wasn’t until he heard the horror in the teacher’s voice – “Shirley Byron!” – that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.”

118. “James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, “What’s wrong with your eyes?” It wasn’t until he heard the horror in the teacher’s voice – “Shirley Byron!” – that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “If men ever got periods, believe me, you’d all be in a ball on the ground from cramps.”

119. “If men ever got periods, believe me, you’d all be in a ball on the ground from cramps.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She replaces the phone number on the board, her damp fingers smudging the ink so that the digits blur as if in a strong wind, or underwater.”

120. “She replaces the phone number on the board, her damp fingers smudging the ink so that the digits blur as if in a strong wind, or underwater.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that – like snow – drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.”

121. “All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that – like snow – drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.”

122. “In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart.”

123. “The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint. It had not been clear, at first, that it would turn out that way.”

124. “When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint. It had not been clear, at first, that it would turn out that way.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Most communities just happen; the best are planned.”

125. “Most communities just happen; the best are planned.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom.”

126. “Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “There was no room left in her for anger. Something within her tipped and cracked.”

127. “There was no room left in her for anger. Something within her tipped and cracked.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “All up and down the street the houses looked like any others – but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or steeling themselves to go out into the world, searching for something better. So many lives she would never know about, unfolding behind those doors.”

128. “All up and down the street the houses looked like any others – but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or steeling themselves to go out into the world, searching for something better. So many lives she would never know about, unfolding behind those doors.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She did not even have words, only a feeling, a terrible hollow feeling, as if everything inside her had been scooped out raw.”

129. “She did not even have words, only a feeling, a terrible hollow feeling, as if everything inside her had been scooped out raw.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing.”

130. “Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Nath had just started the first grade, Lydia had just started nursery school, Hannah had not yet even been imagined. For the first time since she’d been married, Marilyn found herself unoccupied. She was twenty-nine years old, still young, still slender. Still smart, she thought. She could go back to school now, at last, and finish her degree. Do everything she’d planned before the children came along. Only now she couldn’t remember how to write a paper, how.”

131. “Nath had just started the first grade, Lydia had just started nursery school, Hannah had not yet even been imagined. For the first time since she’d been married, Marilyn found herself unoccupied. She was twenty-nine years old, still young, still slender. Still smart, she thought. She could go back to school now, at last, and finish her degree. Do everything she’d planned before the children came along. Only now she couldn’t remember how to write a paper, how.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “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.”

132. “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 Quote: “Literally was one of Lexie’s favorite words, which she deployed even when the situation was anything but literal. In this case, for once, it was more or less true.”

133. “Literally was one of Lexie’s favorite words, which she deployed even when the situation was anything but literal. In this case, for once, it was more or less true.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.”

134. “No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.”

135. “In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Part of the process,” Pearl informed him as they cut through the living room, with the nonchalant air of a native unfazed by the curious customs of the land.”

136. “Part of the process,” Pearl informed him as they cut through the living room, with the nonchalant air of a native unfazed by the curious customs of the land.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?”

137. “Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “There was a whole stack of casseroles in the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil. As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to.”

138. “There was a whole stack of casseroles in the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil. As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity.”

139. “Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Lydia felt her heart in her chest like a pellet of ice, sliding down out of reach.”

140. “Lydia felt her heart in her chest like a pellet of ice, sliding down out of reach.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it’s like to be different.”

141. “But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it’s like to be different.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “It struck her then, as if someone had said it aloud: her mother was dead, and the only thing worth remembering about her, in the end, was that she had cooked. Marilyn.”

142. “It struck her then, as if someone had said it aloud: her mother was dead, and the only thing worth remembering about her, in the end, was that she had cooked. Marilyn.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”

143. “His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “The problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the times there were simply “ways”, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect. For the first time, he wondered if the same held true for him.”

144. “The problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the times there were simply “ways”, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect. For the first time, he wondered if the same held true for him.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.”

145. “It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “How did you explain to someone – how did you explain to a child, a child you loved – that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She.”

146. “How did you explain to someone – how did you explain to a child, a child you loved – that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Found and lost and found again, lost in plain sight, pressed to his back, her feet clasped in his hands. What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”

147. “Found and lost and found again, lost in plain sight, pressed to his back, her feet clasped in his hands. What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “It has been so long since he thought of his wife as a creature of want.”

148. “It has been so long since he thought of his wife as a creature of want.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn’t know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.”

149. “Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn’t know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Moody, gliding to a stop across the street, saw a slender girl in a long, crinkly skirt and a loose T-shirt with a message he couldn’t quite read. Her hair was long and curly and hung in a thick braid down her back and gave the impression of straining to burst free.”

150. “Moody, gliding to a stop across the street, saw a slender girl in a long, crinkly skirt and a loose T-shirt with a message he couldn’t quite read. Her hair was long and curly and hung in a thick braid down her back and gave the impression of straining to burst free.”

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