Quotes by : Hanya Yanagihara

I know my life's meaningful because"- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment....

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never....

What does Malcolm have to worry about?" JB would ask them when Malcolm was anxious about something, but....

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more....

But time, I have come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs. We speak of managing....

But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice....

He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged....

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

For years afterward, I had dreams in which my mother appeared in strange forms, her features sewn onto....