30 Kutipan Terbaik Novel Little Fires Everywhere Karya Celeste Ng

1. “Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

2. “Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

3. “It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

4. “I don't have a plan, I'm afraid, but then, no one really does, no matter what they say.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

5. “To those out on their own paths, setting little fires”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

6. “Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn't, you might burn the world to the ground.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

7. “It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

8. “I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

9. “All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or steeling themselves to go out into the world, searching for something better. So many lives she would never know about, unfolding behind those doors.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

10. “His life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

11. “She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

12. “But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

13. “Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism once and for all.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

14. “The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

15. “Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish, like a Jackie Chan. They were not allowed to be angry and articulate and powerful. And possibly right, Mr. Richardson thought uneasily.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

16. “Change doesn't just happen,” her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. “It has to be planned.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

17. “If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

18. “How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

19. “To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

20. “Getting information out of interviewees is sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you have to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it's doing the steering.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

21. “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. Something she’d only heard about but never seen.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

22. “Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

23. “DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

24. “Where do we follow the rules, and where do we justify breaking them? Do our pasts determine what we deserve in the future? And is it ever possible to leave your past behind?”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

25. “You'll always be sad about this, but it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

26. “A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

27. “Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn’t, you might burn the world to the ground.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

28. “He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better,”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

29. “Sometimes, just when you think everything’s gone, you find a way.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

30. “With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.”― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere