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A Little Life: A Novel

by Hanya Yanagihara(16 total)

I love you more than I love my own self.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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?

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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.

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Fairness

Days were defined, glossed, by a certain tonal consistency.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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?

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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?

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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…

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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.

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Ambition New York City

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