# Quote — Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

> Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast. (first lines)

- Author: [Celeste Ng](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng.md)
- Book: [Everything I Never Told You](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you/lydia-is-dead

## More from this book

> they will dissect this last evening for years to come. What had they missed that they should have seen? What small gesture, forgotten, might have changed everything? They will pick it down to the bones, wondering how this had all gone so wrong, and they will never be sure. (p271)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you/they-will-dissect.md)

> Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before. (p40)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you/every-time-she.md)

> In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break. (p283)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you/in-the-dark.md)