Hanya Yanagihara

“People who don’t love math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated,” Dr. Li had said. “But anyone who does…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“At night, as beneath him his parents completed their routines, the banging of the old pipes as they washed their faces and…

— Hanya Yanagihara

To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He cleaned so he wouldn't cut himself, because he was cutting himself so much that even he knew how crazy, how destructive…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

“If you keep trying to find everything, you’ll wind up with nothing. AMY:”

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

“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

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

— Hanya Yanagihara

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“la mejor estrategia era tratar a Willem como si fuera un eclipse y no mirarlo”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“And yet—and this was even more frightening still—I could also feel something within me come undone. Even today, all these decades later,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Witing is essentially interior work, and many writers are interior personalities. Having a job forces you out of the world of your…

— Hanya Yanagihara

When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely…

— Hanya Yanagihara