“I love you more than I love my own self.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: I Love You More, I Love You More Quotes, How To Say I Love You
“Please tell me you forgive me. I was so awful. I love you, you know that. I would never want to hurt you, never.”— Hanya Yanagihara, JB, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Forgive Me, Don't Want To Hurt You, Please Forgive Me
“He understood, viscerally, what it meant when people said their hearts were in their throats, although it wasn’t just his heart he could feel but all his organs thrusting upward, trying to exit him through his mouth, his innards scrambled with anxiety.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, anxiety in literature, what anxiety feels like
“Don’t do it, don’t fool yourself, no matter what you tell yourself, you know what you are, says one voice. Take a chance, says the other voice. You’re lonely. You have to try. This is the voice he always ignores. This may never happen again, the voice adds, and this stops him. It will end badly, say…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Lonely, Self-Doubt, Meeting Someone New, Dating, It Will End Badly
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could ne…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Friends, Friendship vs. Realtionships, Resist
“And he thinks he begins to cry, but he is unable to produce tears. Everything has gone so wrong, he thinks; how did everything go so wrong?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Crying, So Wrong, Life Over, True Sorrow
“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Fairness
“Days were defined, glossed, by a certain tonal consistency.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Soothing Language, How Days Operate, Tones of Life
“I would walk through campus and overhear conversations — someone talking about splitting up with her boyfriend, someone talking about a bad grade he got on a test, someone talking about his sprained ankle — and would feel rage. You stupid, petty, selfish, self-absorbed people, I wanted to say. You h…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: People Are Vanishing
“The person I am will always be the person I am, I realize. The context may have changed… But fundamentally, I'm the same person.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: The Axiom Of Equality, X = X, Impossible Progress, Cynicism, Fatalism
“Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Childern, Having Kids, Parenthood
“Since then, he has tried to tell Willem more things. But there are so many topics that he has never discussed with anyone since Ana, now twenty-five years ago, that he finds he literally doesn't have the language to do so. His past, his fears, what was done to him, what he has done to himself — they…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Inner Distances, The Difficulty Of Communication, Trauma
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Can We Even Begin To Articulate?, Finding The Right Words, Happiness, Searching For Joy, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Brave, Fool, Stop
“But somewhere inside you, whether you were making out with someone in a bar or having dinner with your friends, was always your canvas, its shapes and possibilities floating embryonically behind your pupils. There was a period — or at least you hoped there was — with every painting or project when t…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Second Vision, The Passion, The Vision Behind Vision, Artist
“New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Ambition, New York City