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“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

“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, Everything I Never Told You

“There is a long road ahead yet," said Gandalf.

"But it is the last road," said Bilbo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You