“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
“He didn't know what exactly he wanted to say—I'm sorry, I didn't mean it—only the ever-deepening regret at how things were turning out between them, the desperate and impossible desire to go back to the way things had been.” RegretLittle Fires EverywhereCeleste Ng Book:Little Fires Everywhere Source: Little Fires Everywhere