Beautiful quotes from 'Everything I never told you', by Celest Ng 

"James would think back to this day in the swimming pool, this first disappointment in his son, this first and most painful puncture in his fatherly dreams"

'Lydia had nothin to keep her mind off the mother-shaped hole in her world."

"She felt drowned in the incredible wrongness of the moment that she should be here, so far away from them." 

" James wants to snatch the words back out of the air, like moths, but the've already crawled into his son's ears; he can see it in Nath's eyes, which have gone shiny and hard, like glass." 

"Don't ever smile if you don't want to, she said."