“Still, part of her longs to go back for one instant--not to change anything, not even to speak to Lydia, not to tell her anything at all. Just to open the door and see her daughter there, asleep, one more time, and know all was well. She knows she's been granted a vision, and she tries not to blink, to absorb this moment, this last beautiful image of her daughter sleeping.” Sad Book:Everything I Never Told You Source: Everything I Never Told You
“He can't know what it was like, not the first time, not the last. 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.” SadTitleCeleste NgEverything I Never Told You Book:Everything I Never Told You Source: Everything I Never Told You
“His parents never go out or entertain; they have no dinner parties, no bridge group, no hunting buddies or luncheon pals. Like Lydia, no real friends.” FamilySadAloneIsolationOutcastFriendlessCeleste NgEverything I Never Told You Book:Everything I Never Told You Source: Everything I Never Told You
“It struck her then, as if someone had said it aloud: her mother was dead, and the only thing worth remembering about her, in the end, was that she had cooked. Marilyn thought uneasily of her own life, of hours spent making breakfasts, serving dinners, packing lunches into neat paper bags. How was it possible to spend so many hours spreading peanut butter across bread?” HumorSad Book:Everything I Never Told You Source: Everything I Never Told You
