“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought about between shorter bursts of thinking about the things everyone thought about: sex and food and sleep and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share
“He cleaned so he wouldn't cut himself, because he was cutting himself so much that even he knew how crazy, how destructive he was… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“If you keep trying to find everything, you’ll wind up with nothing. AMY:” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share
