“At night, as beneath him his parents completed their routines, the banging of the old pipes as they washed their faces and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“It's not so much that Adele was a mother to me, it's that to me, a mother was Adele.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be.… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to… — 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… — 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
