Fae Myenne Ng Quotes

United States, Novelist
December 2, 1956

Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel Bone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown.

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Remembering the past gives power to the present.

Fae Myenne Ng
- Power
- Past
- Present
One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.

Fae Myenne Ng
- Truth
- Another
- Opened

I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.

Fae Myenne Ng
- Believe
- Hearts
- Secrets