Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

it had never occurred to him that Pearl might lie. She’d been relieved, but also a little hurt: that over and over again, he believed her so easily, that he didn’t think her capable of anything but the truth.

“Some pictures,” Mia said, “belong to the person who took them. And some belong to the person inside them.