Hanya Yanagihara

“Claro que una sola opción no era una opción.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Hanya Yanagihara

“I guess I just don't think that sort of thing is for someone like me.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Hanya Yanagihara

“It's not so much that Adele was a mother to me, it's that to me, a mother was Adele.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He knows how selfish, how unreasonable, how self-absorbed he is being, and he is miserable but unable to stop 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 have never found it difficult, as some do, to speak to children. All one has to do is pretend that they're…

— 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

“it was all a dazzling, indistinct wash of blue, an audacious blue with no name, so insistent and unvaried I had to…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“experimentó el singular placer de observar cómo las personas a las que quería se caían bien unas a otras.”

— 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

“Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“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

We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another’s appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Sometimes he looks at his arms and is filled with a self-hatred so fiery that he can barely breathe: much of what…

— 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

“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

“When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

— 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

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

Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Much of an editor's job is in fact pretty nanny-like in nature: in many ways, you're there to protect and defend, to…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Perhaps because of this, he felt he always knew who and what he was, which is why, as he moved farther and…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He like both types of conversation with Willem, but he appreciates the mundane ones more than he'd imagined he would. He had…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“answer. It is also then that I wish I believed in some sort of life after life, that in another universe, maybe…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that…

— 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

“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

“. . . you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The easiest explanations are often the right one.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“It isn't only that he died, or how died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind…

— Hanya Yanagihara