What was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Tag: Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara
New York was populated by the …
New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied …
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
A society cannot run as it …
A society cannot run as it should unless people with excellent legal minds make it their business to make it run.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
The point of a child is …
The point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all – and, more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara