Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn’t imagine it.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
She would never admit even to herself that it hadn’t been about the baby at all: it had been some complicated thing about Mia herself, the dark discomfort this woman stirred up that Mrs. Richardson would have much preferred to have kept in its box.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Toughness rendered tender, even beautiful.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
For so long, she could see now, she had made her daughter live by her whim: moving on anytime she needed new ideas; anytime she had felt stuck or uneasy.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
the capability she saw there to delight in mischief, in breaking the rules.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Everything that had infuriated her about Izzy, even before she’d taken her first breath, had been rooted in that one fear, that she might lose her. And now she had. A thin wail rose from her throat, sharp as the blade of a knife.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before her.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil.