“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling me, somehow, as if I'd somehow become possessed by it.” — 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
