He cleaned so he wouldn't cut himself, because he was…

“People who don’t love math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated,” Dr. Li had said. “But anyone who does love math…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“At night, as beneath him his parents completed their routines, the banging of the old pipes as they washed their faces and the sudden…

— Hanya Yanagihara

To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a question and…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are not fair,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things is how…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have and will…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“If you keep trying to find everything, you’ll wind up with nothing. AMY:”

— Hanya Yanagihara

My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest are just…

— Hanya Yanagihara