“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“You understand that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning and walking… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? He couldn't… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself;… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another: confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“You let things slide that your instincts told you not to, you scooted around the edges of your suspicions. You understood that… — 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
“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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
