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Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

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  • Leonid Plenkinhas quoted9 years ago
    the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
  • billecarthas quoted9 years ago
    you should never paint where you fucked
  • billecarthas quoted9 years ago
    They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.
  • has quoted7 years ago
    Life was scary; it was unknowable. Even Malcolm’s money wouldn’t immunize him completely. Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them. They all—Malcolm with his houses, Willem with his girlfriends, JB with his paints, he with his razors—sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.
  • dmitrylyhas quoted9 years ago
    Lately, he had been wondering if codependence was such a bad thing. He took pleasure in his friendships, and it didn’t hurt anyone, so who cared if it was codependent or not? And anyway, how was a friendship any more codependent than a relationship? Why was it admirable when you were twenty-seven but creepy when you were thirty-seven? Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.
  • 📕🖋⚜🐍has quoted3 years ago
    “No,” Willem said, after they’d all stopped laughing. “I know my life’s meaningful because”—and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued—“because I’m a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.”
  • myriamrodenhas quoted5 years ago
    people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
  • myriamrodenhas quoted5 years ago
    The world, overnight, rearranges itself into an obstacle course of terrors.
  • myriamrodenhas quoted5 years ago
    wasn’t a cruel person, Liesl, and I don’t mean to give the impression that she was without kindness, without gentleness, because she had both in her, was capable of both.
  • myriamrodenhas quoted5 years ago
    solemn and brief,
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