Everything I Never Told You

It happened so quickly that if she were a different person, Hannah might have wondered if she'd imagined it. No one else saw. Nath was still turned away; Lydia had her eyes shut now against the sun. But the moment flashed lightning-bright to Hannah. Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food. She could not mistake it. She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway. It was too familiar to be surprising.

i dont even know what to say... celeste ng has cemented herself as one of my favorite authors now and im just in awe and enamored with the way she writes, the multilayered stories she weaves that are all dealt with equal amounts of care, the characters she constructs who are so human and so humanly flawed that i find parts of myself reflected back in all of them. i love this one even more than Little Fires Everywhere, this book feels like a part of me. very few books give me this feeling after i finish, like im walking on clouds... this is one of my favorites of the year for sure