Top 38 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.
Hanya Yanagihara
#6. I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. 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
#8. Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.
Diego Maradona
#9. He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.
Hanya Yanagihara
#11. 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
#12. Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it.
Erika Johansen
#13. They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.
Hanya Yanagihara
#14. One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion ... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.
Charles Eliot Norton
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
Hanya Yanagihara
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.
David Arquette
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. This was what he loved about JB, he had thought; he was always smarter than even he knew.
Hanya Yanagihara
#25. 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
#26. Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
Richard Jefferies
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
Gifford Pinchot
#38. Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.
Hanya Yanagihara
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