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“How he’d asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he’d saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“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

“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

“I knew Early Auden could not hold back the ocean. But that strangest of boys saved me from being swept away.”
― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early