英文得獎小說推薦 |Celeste Ng《Everything I Never Told You》Inspirational Quotes“You loved so hard and hope

伍綺詩（Celeste Ng），美國作家和小說家。在各種文學期刊上發表過很多短篇小說。2014年發表了第一本長篇小說《無聲告白》贏得了許多獎項，包括亞馬遜年度書籍。短篇小說《Girls at Play》贏得了2012年Pushcart Prize。

一度在密西根大學教授文學，也曾任教於波士頓的格拉勃街公司。擔任過三年小說作家評論博客網站的編輯。伍綺詩的小說發表在《One Story》, 《TriQuarterly》, 《Subtropics》和其他雜誌。散文發表在Kenyon Review Online, The Millions和別處。

伍綺詩和丈夫、兒子生活在麻薩諸塞州劍橋。在巡迴簽售圖書《無聲告白》時，伍綺詩表示自己小時候最喜愛的書是《小偵探哈里特》(Harriet the Spy)。當下最喜愛的書是阿蘭達蒂·羅伊的《微物之神》（The Good of Small Things）。

長篇小說《無聲告白》是背景落在1970年代的驚悚小說。她用了六年時間、歷經四個不同的草稿完成這部小說。寫作的過程中，她把她自己、家人和朋友遭受到的種族歧視記錄下來。]該書被《洛杉磯時報》描述為「關於家庭、愛情和抱負最優秀的小說」，贏得2014年亞馬遜年度書籍，被翻譯成15種語言。

2017年第二本長篇小說（Little Fires Everywhere）《中文書名：星星之火》發表，故事圍繞謝克海茨鎮上兩個家庭，其中一個家庭將對當地傳統構成衝擊….　購買她中文版的書籍

Celeste Ng attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

her website at http://celesteng.com

Follow her on Twitter: @pronounced_ing.

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Everything I Never Told You- Inspirational Quotes 

1. “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.” ★★

#eat (away) at someone: to trouble someone constantly. e.g. The nasty situation at work ate at me day and night.

2“People decide what you’re like before they even get to know you”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
3.“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.” ★★★★
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

4.“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.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
5.“It’s too late. He’s already learned how not to drown.” ★★★★
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
6.“When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn’t know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
7.“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.”
8.“You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they’d never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.”
9.“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.” ★★★★
10“Tears blur Marilyn’s sight. It had not been science that Lydia had loved”
11“She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back”
12.“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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