“Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we'...” — Celeste Ng Quote

“Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.”

“But she herself had never felt that way about anyone, not as a teenager, not in art school, not since. It occurred to her that except for her brother, when they were children, she’d never seen”

“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.”