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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.”

151. “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.”

152. “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.”

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

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.”

154. “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.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.”

155. “At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.”

156. “With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Getting information out of interviewees is sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you have to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it’s doing the steering.”

157. “Getting information out of interviewees is sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you have to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it’s doing the steering.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and windows, and Ed Lim, tired by then, would find himself as frustrated as he was grateful. We’ve always known, he would think; what took you so long?”

158. “Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and windows, and Ed Lim, tired by then, would find himself as frustrated as he was grateful. We’ve always known, he would think; what took you so long?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “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.”

159. “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 Quote: “For the rest of the summer, and for years after that, they will grope for the words that say what they mean: to Nath, to Hannah, to each other. There is so much more they need to say.”

160. “For the rest of the summer, and for years after that, they will grope for the words that say what they mean: to Nath, to Hannah, to each other. There is so much more they need to say.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She had laid the headboard down flat near the flowerbeds that bordered the house, with the side rails below it and the slats to either side in neat rows, like ribs. It was as if the bed had drawn a deep breath and then gracefully flattened itself into the grass.”

161. “She had laid the headboard down flat near the flowerbeds that bordered the house, with the side rails below it and the slats to either side in neat rows, like ribs. It was as if the bed had drawn a deep breath and then gracefully flattened itself into the grass.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “A whole stack of them, lined with the stories of others, all with their own memories and regrets, all their failings and love, all things they wished they could tell the children they might never see again. Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.”

162. “A whole stack of them, lined with the stories of others, all with their own memories and regrets, all their failings and love, all things they wished they could tell the children they might never see again. Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “All she has left are things unwanted, things unloved.”

163. “All she has left are things unwanted, things unloved.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “As if they were two halves of a mold. He.”

164. “As if they were two halves of a mold. He.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “They did not care if Pearl saw them this way. They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed. Where did this ease come from? How could they be so at home, so sure of themselves, even in pajamas?”

165. “They did not care if Pearl saw them this way. They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed. Where did this ease come from? How could they be so at home, so sure of themselves, even in pajamas?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “If we fear something, it is all the more imperative we study it thoroughly.”

166. “If we fear something, it is all the more imperative we study it thoroughly.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Children are a place.”

167. “Children are a place.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.”

168. “Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “The photos stirred feelings she couldn’t quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

169. “The photos stirred feelings she couldn’t quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Have a good night,′ he said, and Mia stepped out onto Fifth Avenue and let the city swallow her up.”

170. “Have a good night,′ he said, and Mia stepped out onto Fifth Avenue and let the city swallow her up.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She remembered then that Lexie, thank god, had stayed over at Serena Wong’s house last night.”

171. “She remembered then that Lexie, thank god, had stayed over at Serena Wong’s house last night.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Dinnertime comes and goes, but none of them can imagine eating. It seems like something only people in films do, something lovely and decorative, that whole act of raising a fork to your mouth. Some kind of purposeless ceremony.”

172. “Dinnertime comes and goes, but none of them can imagine eating. It seems like something only people in films do, something lovely and decorative, that whole act of raising a fork to your mouth. Some kind of purposeless ceremony.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Teens could pay attention to nothing but the sexuality billowing off each other like steam.”

173. “Teens could pay attention to nothing but the sexuality billowing off each other like steam.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “They had assumed this photography thing was an adolescent phase, like boy chasing, or vegetarianism. What else had they worked so hard for all these years? For Mia to throw their money away on art school?”

174. “They had assumed this photography thing was an adolescent phase, like boy chasing, or vegetarianism. What else had they worked so hard for all these years? For Mia to throw their money away on art school?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Her preferred form of exercise, she told Wendy, was stress. “Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again.”

175. “Her preferred form of exercise, she told Wendy, was stress. “Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby’s flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.”

176. “She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby’s flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food.”

177. “Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Most? What does that mean?”

178. “Most? What does that mean?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Once she was behind, how could she catch up?”

179. “Once she was behind, how could she catch up?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “She drove on into the night, homeward, her hair weeping tiny slow streams down her back.”

180. “She drove on into the night, homeward, her hair weeping tiny slow streams down her back.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “He had thrown every rock he could find and it was still not enough.”

181. “He had thrown every rock he could find and it was still not enough.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “It happened so slowly that you might not even notice it at all, like the sky turning from dusk to dark.”

182. “It happened so slowly that you might not even notice it at all, like the sky turning from dusk to dark.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Ed Lim had gone to four different toy stores searching... he would have bought it for his daughter, whatever the price.”

183. “Ed Lim had gone to four different toy stores searching... he would have bought it for his daughter, whatever the price.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.”

184. “Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “The average American, one judge ruled, cannot reasonably be expected to visually distinguish between various varieties of persons of Asian origin. As if they were types of apples, or breeds of dogs; as if those persons of Asian origin did not count as average Americans themselves.”

185. “The average American, one judge ruled, cannot reasonably be expected to visually distinguish between various varieties of persons of Asian origin. As if they were types of apples, or breeds of dogs; as if those persons of Asian origin did not count as average Americans themselves.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “How porous the boundary was between him and the world, as if everything flowed through him like water through a net. She’d worried about him, moving through a rough world as a tender bare heart, beating out in the open where anything could cause a bruise.”

186. “How porous the boundary was between him and the world, as if everything flowed through him like water through a net. She’d worried about him, moving through a rough world as a tender bare heart, beating out in the open where anything could cause a bruise.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “In Pauline and Mal’s house, nothing was simple. In her parents’ house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. There had been nothing in between. Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths. Everything was worth looking at more closely.”

187. “In Pauline and Mal’s house, nothing was simple. In her parents’ house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. There had been nothing in between. Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths. Everything was worth looking at more closely.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you’d choose.” Now it was her turn to study Mrs. Richardson, as if the key to understanding her were coded into her face. “It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn’t know you wanted.”

188. “I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you’d choose.” Now it was her turn to study Mrs. Richardson, as if the key to understanding her were coded into her face. “It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn’t know you wanted.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.”

189. “Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “I mean, that’s the future, isn’t it? In the future we’ll all be able to look past race.”

190. “I mean, that’s the future, isn’t it? In the future we’ll all be able to look past race.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who’ve hidden scraps of them away in the folds of their minds before setting match to the papers of their hands. He will find them. He will ask them what they remember. He will piece together their recollections, fragmentary and incomplete though they may be, mapping the holes of one against the solid patches of another. And in this way, piece by piece, he will set her back down on paper again.”

191. “Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who’ve hidden scraps of them away in the folds of their minds before setting match to the papers of their hands. He will find them. He will ask them what they remember. He will piece together their recollections, fragmentary and incomplete though they may be, mapping the holes of one against the solid patches of another. And in this way, piece by piece, he will set her back down on paper again.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country’s done before. The camps at Manzanar, or what happens at the border. They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don’t they?”

192. “Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country’s done before. The camps at Manzanar, or what happens at the border. They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don’t they?”

Celeste Ng Quote: “PACT protects innocent children from being indoctrinated with false, subversive, un-American ideas by unfit and unpatriotic parents. He taps the paper.”

193. “PACT protects innocent children from being indoctrinated with false, subversive, un-American ideas by unfit and unpatriotic parents. He taps the paper.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else’s children though she’d left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins.”

194. “Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else’s children though she’d left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “With one finger he tips it from the shelf. The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Japanese Folktale. He’s never seen this particular book before, but as soon as he sees the cover he knows it’s the same story. A Japanese folktale.”

195. “With one finger he tips it from the shelf. The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Japanese Folktale. He’s never seen this particular book before, but as soon as he sees the cover he knows it’s the same story. A Japanese folktale.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “Like small animals sheltered deep in their den.”

196. “Like small animals sheltered deep in their den.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “This was what would haunt Mrs. McCullough most: that Mirabelle hadn’t cried out when Bebe had reached into the crib and lifted her up and taken her away. Despite everything – despite the homemade food and the toys and the late nights and the love, so much love, more love than Mrs. McCullough could have imagined possible – despite it all, she still had felt Bebe’s arms were a safe place, a place she belonged.”

197. “This was what would haunt Mrs. McCullough most: that Mirabelle hadn’t cried out when Bebe had reached into the crib and lifted her up and taken her away. Despite everything – despite the homemade food and the toys and the late nights and the love, so much love, more love than Mrs. McCullough could have imagined possible – despite it all, she still had felt Bebe’s arms were a safe place, a place she belonged.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “There is no snow, yet, to hold footprints, and in a moment, as his father disappears from sight, it is as if he never passed that way at all. Today it strikes Bird as unbearably sad, to pass by and leave no trace of your existence. To have no one remember you’d been there.”

198. “There is no snow, yet, to hold footprints, and in a moment, as his father disappears from sight, it is as if he never passed that way at all. Today it strikes Bird as unbearably sad, to pass by and leave no trace of your existence. To have no one remember you’d been there.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.”

199. “A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.”

Celeste Ng Quote: “I’m not saying there aren’t bad mothers, she says. Just that you don’t always know. What makes them do something, or not do something. Most of us, we’re trying our best.”

200. “I’m not saying there aren’t bad mothers, she says. Just that you don’t always know. What makes them do something, or not do something. Most of us, we’re trying our best.”

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