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Quotes from The People in the Trees — Hanya Yanagihara

born 1974 United States

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Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.

The People in the Trees (2013)

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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hanya Yanagihara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.