“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
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A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller.
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Hanya Yanagihara
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“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
“But now he knew: you always sacrificed something. The question was what you sacrificed.”
“But these were days of self-fulfilment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to...”
“It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”
“He envied this in them, this ability they had to still be awestruck, the faith they maintained that life, adulthood, would keep presenting them with astonishing experiences, that their marve...”
“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or fi...”
“— Dar nu e treaba lui, ripostează el, disperat. E treaba mea. — Tocmai asta e, Jude. Că e treaba lui. Asta înseamnă să fii într-o relaţie – nu pricepi încă? Nu pricepi că nu poţi să faci pur...”
“The balance—between resignation and hope—shifted by day, by the hour, sometimes by the minute. He was always, always trying to decide how he should be—if his thoughts should be of acceptance...”