Celeste Ng Quotes
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.
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
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.
I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.
I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.
I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.
If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.
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.
It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?
People decide what you're like before they even get to know you
