Celeste Ng

halves and wholes

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

Lots of times, they say, the girls are mad at their parents and the parents don’t even know.

“Not with Lydia making a face like that. People will think she looks like that all the time. Pick a nice one.”

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

hugged her for a long time and whispered, “How proud I am of you. You have no idea.”

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

You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.

You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing.