“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“I have never found it difficult, as some do, to speak to children. All one has to do is pretend that they're… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to be at that school in an era in which encounters between students and teachers were encouraged; there were… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Everyone had been so much more entertaining then. What had happened? Age, he guessed, And with it: Jobs. Money. Children. The things… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them… — 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 knows it’s really the opposite: math rewards simplicity, and mathematicians value it above all else. So it’s no surprise that Walter’s favorite axiom was also the most simple in the realm of mathematics: the axiom of… — 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 thunk into silence as they turned down the living-room radiators better than any clock at indicating that was eleven, eleven thirty, midnight, he made lists of what he needed to resolve, and fast, in the following… — 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 Image
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
