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Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit. Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: All fat people hated summer in New York: everything was always sticking to everything else, flesh to flesh, flesh to fabric. You never felt truly dry. All fat people hated summer in New York: everything was always sticking to everything else, flesh to flesh, flesh to fabric. You never felt truly dry.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart. Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Harold," he says, although Andy is still talking, "release me. Release me from my promise to you. Don't make me do this anymore. Don't make me go on. Harold," he says, although Andy is still talking, "release me. Release me from my promise to you. Don't make me do this anymore. Don't make me go on.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal? Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: An elegant mind wants elegant endings An elegant mind wants elegant endings
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else. my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them. I It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them. I
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: pg 674 "let me get better or let me end it pg 674 "let me get better or let me end it
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world. I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you. And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: that life, adulthood, would keep presenting them with astonishing experiences, that their marvelous years were not behind them. that life, adulthood, would keep presenting them with astonishing experiences, that their marvelous years were not behind them.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: The ocean, its remorseless, lonely conversation with itself The ocean, its remorseless, lonely conversation with itself
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It was, he and Willem agreed, one of the best letters they'd ever read. It was, he and Willem agreed, one of the best letters they'd ever read.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd. I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Sometimes, all he has to do is sit up, and he will be reminded, as if slapped across the face, that his body owns him, not the other way around. Sometimes, all he has to do is sit up, and he will be reminded, as if slapped across the face, that his body owns him, not the other way around.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I knew that he had decided that Caleb was right, that he was disgusting, that he had, somehow, deserved what had happened to him. I knew that he had decided that Caleb was right, that he was disgusting, that he had, somehow, deserved what had happened to him.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for? What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids. That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly. That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead. I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost. he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Does he seem listless, out of sorts? Does he seem listless, out of sorts?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It is always easier to believe what you already think than to try to change your mind. It is always easier to believe what you already think than to try to change your mind.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: To conceive of such a luxury, you needed an American mind. To conceive of such a luxury, you needed an American mind.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.And then he did. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He will be reminded of how trapped he is, trapped in a body he hates, with a past he hates, and how he will never be able to change either. He will be reminded of how trapped he is, trapped in a body he hates, with a past he hates, and how he will never be able to change either.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner. I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: clearly besotted with clearly besotted with
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have: Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have:
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: An admission of extreme otherness, An admission of extreme otherness,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant. Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: We don't get the families we deserve, We don't get the families we deserve,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him: pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable. Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: But once Rausch was definitively gone for the day, the office transformed itself as instantaneously as a pumpkin into a carriage. Music But once Rausch was definitively gone for the day, the office transformed itself as instantaneously as a pumpkin into a carriage. Music
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He has tasted anger, and he knows he has to control it. He can feel it, waiting to burst from his mouth in a swarm of stinging black flies. He has tasted anger, and he knows he has to control it. He can feel it, waiting to burst from his mouth in a swarm of stinging black flies.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: What point?" Malcolm had asked. "That you can be as annoying to white people without talking to them as when you are talking to them? What point?" Malcolm had asked. "That you can be as annoying to white people without talking to them as when you are talking to them?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: converted, how the remaining villagers on Ivu'ivu, converted, how the remaining villagers on Ivu'ivu,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton. James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person. He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different. If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: You will learn to see your life - all of our lives - as a series of agreements, You will learn to see your life - all of our lives - as a series of agreements,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I was so busy building my life only to wake and discover it was over I was so busy building my life only to wake and discover it was over
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: What I loved most was their scent, one that mingled sweetness and decay at once What I loved most was their scent, one that mingled sweetness and decay at once
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Pg 623 When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another: Confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of intimacy. Pg 623 When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another:
Confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of intimacy.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try. It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: At five thirty, the light was perfect: buttery and dense and fat somehow, swelling the room as it had the train into something expansive and hopeful. At five thirty, the light was perfect: buttery and dense and fat somehow, swelling the room as it had the train into something expansive and hopeful.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: 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. 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 quotes: What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier. What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being. You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I didn't intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that's a novel's goal or responsibility. I didn't intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that's a novel's goal or responsibility.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He had simply let his life be dictated to him by others, following one man after the next, the way he had been taught to do. He had simply let his life be dictated to him by others, following one man after the next, the way he had been taught to do.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Jude seemed so confident, so competent, so certain that he, too, had something to offer. Jude seemed so confident, so competent, so certain that he, too, had something to offer.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero. Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: How many societies can say this, that they have recognized all they need and have made provisions for it all? How many societies can say this, that they have recognized all they need and have made provisions for it all?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Harold sighs. "Jude," he says, "there's not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don't get to a certain age and it stops. Harold sighs. "Jude," he says, "there's not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don't get to a certain age and it stops.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: his parents huffing after him; his parents huffing after him;
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: flibbertigibbets - and flibbertigibbets - and
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay. Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: But if you act like you don't belong, if you act like you're apologetic for your own self, then people will start to treat you that way, too. But if you act like you don't belong, if you act like you're apologetic for your own self, then people will start to treat you that way, too.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold. Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics. I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: None of them really wanted to listen to someone else's story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own. None of them really wanted to listen to someone else's story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person. Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all. Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: his memories from this period were something slightly blur-edged and unreliable, his memories from this period were something slightly blur-edged and unreliable,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did. I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Video, ergo est," said Laurence, suddenly. I see it, therefore it is. Video, ergo est," said Laurence, suddenly. I see it, therefore it is.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not. It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about. Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult. Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He feels he isn't so much living as he is merely existing, He feels he isn't so much living as he is merely existing,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He liked to pretend he was one of them, but he knew he was not. He liked to pretend he was one of them, but he knew he was not.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Felt for a minute frightened by the jungle, its voracious appetite and ambition, its hunger to consume every surface it encountered. Felt for a minute frightened by the jungle, its voracious appetite and ambition, its hunger to consume every surface it encountered.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: Sometimes he found himself resenting the others' definition of him, the reductiveness and immovability of it: Sometimes he found himself resenting the others' definition of him, the reductiveness and immovability of it:
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: This, I thought approvingly, was a place that had no needs, and therefore no wants. This, I thought approvingly, was a place that had no needs, and therefore no wants.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story? But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story?
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: he feels his breath abandon him; he feels his breath abandon him;
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: garish displays of wealth, garish displays of wealth,
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: We are meant to break you down, Dennys, his professor said. Only the truly talented will be able to come back from it. We are meant to break you down, Dennys, his professor said. Only the truly talented will be able to come back from it.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: The awful pleasure of hurling himself against something so immovable. The awful pleasure of hurling himself against something so immovable.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: his privacy, his life, is still his his privacy, his life, is still his
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty. The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: He got to see his friends differently, not as just appendages to his life but as distinct characters inhabiting their own stories; He got to see his friends differently, not as just appendages to his life but as distinct characters inhabiting their own stories;
Hanya Yanagihara quotes: But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities. But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.

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