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Celeste Ng , née le 30 juillet 1980 à Pittsburgh, est une écrivaine américaine.

✵ 30. juillet 1980
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“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

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

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“It’s too late. He’s already learned how not to drown.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia’s mother and father, because of her mother’s and father’s mothers and fathers.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

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Celeste Ng livre Little Fires Everywhere

Source: Little Fires Everywhere

“She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

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“You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.”

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Celeste Ng livre Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“I think even if I did try to write something that had nothing to do with women or race, which are two pretty broad topics, I don’t know how I would do that. I don’t think there’s a way that I could write a buddy cop drama, or something really far from anything I’ve written, that didn’t have pieces of race and gender. Those are parts of the world we live in, and they are things I think about. It all comes into the voice of your writing, and you can’t write about someone else’s voice. You can only write in your own.”

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On why she revisits certain themes in “AN INTERVIEW WITH CELESTE NG, THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY AMBASSADOR” https://bookriot.com/2018/04/27/celeste-ng-interview/ in BookRiot (2018 Apr 27)

“I have an interest in the outsider…In fiction you’re not often writing about the typical, you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour … another part comes from my personality: I’m an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.”

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On her writing interests in “Celeste Ng: ‘It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/04/celeste-ng-interview-little-fires-everywhere in The Guardian (2017 Nov 4)

“Your experience has so much to do with how you view difference and how you approach being in the world. For example, in the grocery store, if someone comes down the aisle, I always preemptively move to the side—I’ve had many experiences where I get a glare or a huffy scolding or even a racial slur if the person feels I’m in the way. My parents did the same; years of experience as part of a racial minority taught them that to be noticed often means being harassed, so they try to avoid attention of any kind. On the other hand my husband, who is white, continues whatever he’s doing. His reasoning is ‘If I’m in the way, they’ll just ask me to move,’ and he’s right. The world treats him differently, so he sees it very differently.”

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On how she approaches the world differently than her Caucasian husband in “’Memory at its Core’: An Interview with Celeste Ng” https://www.loc.gov/poetry/interviews/celeste-ng.html (Library of Congress; Summer 2018)

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