Hanya Yanagihara
- A Little Life
There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.
Hanya Yanagihara
- A Little Life
I have become lost to the world in which I otherwise wasted so much time. It means nothing to me. Whether the world believes me dead, I can hardly say anything to refute it, for truly I am no longer a part of the world.
Hanya Yanagihara
- A Little Life
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.
