Top 43 A Little Life Hanya Quotes
#1. He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Willem had tried to approach the subject through various directions - through stories of friends and acquaintances, some named, some not (he had to assume some of these people were creations, as surely no one person could have such a vast collection of sexually abused friends).
Hanya Yanagihara
#4. He had wanted to vanish, then, to close his eyes and reel back time, back to before he had ever met Caleb. He would have turned down Rhodes's invitation; he would have kept living his little life; he would never have known the difference.
Hanya Yanagihara
#5. He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
Hanya Yanagihara
#6. Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.
Hanya Yanagihara
#9. He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.'
'I'm not going to,' he said. 'I can do other things in life besides cry, you know,' although he was no longer sure that was even true.
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage
Carol Cottrill
#11. The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds.
Charlotte Moss
#12. He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day.
Hanya Yanagihara
#13. That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.
Hanya Yanagihara
#14. But mostly, I missed watching you two together; I missed watching you watch him, and him watch you; I missed how thoughtful you were with each other, missed how thoughtlessly, sincerely affectionate you were with him; missed watching you listen to each other, the way you both did so intently.
Hanya Yanagihara
#15. They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.
Hanya Yanagihara
#16. This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.
Hanya Yanagihara
#17. But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.
Hanya Yanagihara
#18. I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
Hanya Yanagihara
#20. The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them both very solemnly, as if he was Jude's father and they had told him that they had just gotten engaged.
Hanya Yanagihara
#21. they'll get a lot more than detention for blackmail!
J.K. Rowling
#22. I haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
Richelle Mead
#23. Very few people look the part and are it too.
Don Herold
#24. In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by daylight, and indulge his true nature.
Hanya Yanagihara
#25. Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ...
Henry Cavill
#26. Often the first step in our own resurrection is realizing how dead we really are.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.
Hanya Yanagihara
#28. This was what he loved about JB, he had thought; he was always smarter than even he knew.
Hanya Yanagihara
#29. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. There's no one else. There never was. It's still only ever you.
Lesley Jones
#31. They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. His persistent nostalgia depressed him, aged him, and yet he couldn't stop feeling that the most glorious years, the years when everything seemed drawn in florescents, were gone. Everyone had been so much more entertaining then. What had happened?
Hanya Yanagihara
#33. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
Hanya Yanagihara
#35. The particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked in a silken cape.
Hanya Yanagihara
#36. I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
Hanya Yanagihara
#38. Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.
Oscar Wilde
#40. Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
John C. Maxwell
#41. My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.
Hanya Yanagihara
#42. His limp had been very pronounced that day, and he had been self-conscious, feeling - as he often did - as if he were playing the role of an impoverished governess in a Dickensian drama.
Hanya Yanagihara
#43. Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.
Hanya Yanagihara
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