Everything I Never Told You

by Celeste Ng

She’s reached the point where Lydia stopped reading, she realizes, and she doesn’t feel like reading any more.

because she knows that kydia is never going to be able to read it, she doesn’t want to experience something her sister never will (bc she’s dead)

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

It was as if America herself was taking him in.

All those years of her daughter’s life unmarked. Nothing to explain anything.

Does anything make you feel so pleased with yourself as baking bread?

how someone she loved so dearly could be there one minute, and the next minute: gone.

Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.

Lydia could not tell if she had been left out of the joke or if she had been the joke herself.

Looking out over the lake, she could not know that in three months she would be at its bottom.

Again no one else noticed.