Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to artic — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want fro — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
He doesn't know this now, but in the years to come he will, again and again, test Harold's claims of devotion, will thro — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to r — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life see — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier. — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
You understand that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning an — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his frie — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
[Friendship] It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
There had been periods in his twenties when he would look at his friends and feel such a pure, deep contentment that he — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Lately, he had been wondering if codependence was such a bad thing. He took pleasure in his friendships, and it didn’t h — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
I know my life's meaningful because"- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continu — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
You boys are really turning into a bunch of Peter Pans," he said. "Willem, what are you? Thirty-six? I'm not sure what's — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
These galleries are hung, mostly, with images from 'Frog and Toad,' and he moves from each to each, not really seeing th — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart. — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual li — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Without them, one’s status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilar — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life