Berdugo Ng Quotes

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, ~ Celeste Ng

The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle. ~ Celeste Ng

It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn't know you wanted." A sharp, pitying smile pinched the corners of her lips. "What was it? Was it a boy? Was it a vocation? Or was it a whole life? ~ Celeste Ng

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past. ~ Ren Ng

Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to. ~ Celeste Ng

Change doesn't just happen," her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. "It has to be planned. ~ Celeste Ng

Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines ... Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus. ~ Chip Ingram

You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family. ~ Celeste Ng

In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache. ~ Celeste Ng

It had not been science that Lydia had loved. And then, as if the tears are telescopes, she begins to see more clearly: the shredded posters and pictures, the rubble of books, the shelf prostrate at her feet. Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway. A dull chill creeps over her. Perhaps - and this thought chokes her - that had dragged Lydia underwater at last. ~ Celeste Ng

Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility. ~ Ren Ng

Everyone in the Richardson family noticed Izzy's improved demeanor. "She's almost pleasant around you," Lexie told Mia one day. Izzy's adoration for Mia, like everything she did, did not come by halves: there was nothing Izzy wouldn't do for her. ~ Celeste Ng

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really. ~ Celeste Ng

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures. ~ Ren Ng

There was an ease between them that, Moody was sure, could only come from being intimately comfortable with another person's body. ~ Celeste Ng

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 existed all at once. ~ Celeste Ng

All love starts with a sense of attraction or liking- physical, spiritual, intellectual or emotional. Pero hindi lahat ng pagkagusto ay masasabing tunay na pag-ibig. ~ Ronald Molmisa

In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break. ~ Celeste Ng

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university. ~ Ren Ng

Her preferred form of exercise, she told Wendy, was stress. "Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again ~ Celeste Ng

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography. ~ Celeste Ng

Our whole world will change if we meet the right people and talk about the right things. ~ Azizi Ng

Marilyn smiled back, a fake smile. The same one she had given to her mother all those years. You lifted the corners of your mouth toward your ears.
You kept your lips closed. It was amazing how no one could tell. ~ Celeste Ng

Father has occasionally taken Sarah to work and made embarrassing introductions to young interns. I can only imagine what humiliations are in store for me. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less. ~ Celeste Ng

Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do. ~ Ren Ng

Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run. ~ Andrew Ng

When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you. ~ Celeste Ng

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown. ~ Celeste Ng

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. ~ Celeste Ng

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it. ~ Celeste Ng