#thelitbit // Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere  by Celeste Ng

Quarantine got me taking it back to a favorite page turner from last year turned Hulu series this year. A story that follows the intertwined fates of the Richardson’s, a model family among their Shaker Heights community, and the mysterious mother and daughter that turn their lives upside down.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Noteworthy excerpts:

"I don’t have a plan, I’m afraid. But then, no one really does, no matter what they say."

"But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on."

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

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