Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
born 1974 United States
Hanya Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer.
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Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?
Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.
The People in the Trees (2013)
What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.
Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.
The People in the Trees (2013)
Often, we’re drawn most powerfully to people who we know have the capacity to harm us.
He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.
It saddened him, of course, that his sex life and his home life should have to be two distinct realms, but he was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.
there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.
I admire authors whose every novel answers a single question or theme, but who do so in wildly different ways. (with Women’s Prize)
They all...sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.
It is astonishing and a little sad to realize how many discoveries, how many advancements, have been delayed for years, for decades, not because the information was unavailable but because of sheer cowardice, fear of being laughed at, of being ostracized by one's colleagues.
The People in the Trees (2013)
...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.