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People decide what you’re like before they even get to know you. They think they know all about you. Except, you're never who they think you are.
— Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You
Tags: society-problem, life-lessons, life, judgemental, friendship

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I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.
— Celeste Ng
Tags: enough, editing, time, money
Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.
— Celeste Ng
Tags: your, time, you, good
Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.
— Celeste Ng
Tags: same, telling, story, view
Somewhere in the Commandments of Reviewing must be written, 'Thou shalt not compare Asians to non-Asians.'
— Celeste Ng
Tags: thou, somewhere, compare, must
What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.
— Celeste Ng
Tags: your, saying, remember, you
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