377 Quotes by Celeste Ng

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.

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.

Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.

She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.

I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.

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

People decide what you’re like before they even get to know you. They think they know all about you. Except, you're never who they think you are.

When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.