Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on pa...

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on pa...

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Tags: water, color, spring

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make...

Hanya Yanagihara

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make...

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Tags: day, perfect, you

About Author

Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii. She is best known for her bestselling novel A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, and for being the editor-in-chief of T Magazine.

I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in...

Hanya Yanagihara

I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in...

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Tags: family, friends, believe

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

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Tags: india, popular, north

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids...

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I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids...

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Tags: relationship, people

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...

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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...

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Tags: life, friends, past

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

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Tags: party, relationships, you

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

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Tags: life, plant, long

And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the voice is originating inside his own head, Willem’s whispered incantation. You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re...

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And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the voice is originating inside his own head, Willem’s whispered incantation. You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re...

Hanya Yanagihara

James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton.

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James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton.

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Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can't even remember who he is. 'Where am I?' he asks, desperate, and then, 'Who am I? Who am I?'And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if t...

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Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can't even remember who he is. 'Where am I?' he asks, desperate, and then, 'Who am I? Who am I?'And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if t...

Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can’t even remember who he is. Where am I? he asks, desperate, and then, Who am I? Who am I? And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the...

Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can’t even remember who he is. Where am I? he asks, desperate, and then, Who am I? Who am I? And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the...

Hanya Yanagihara

Who am I? Who am I? You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richar...

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Who am I? Who am I? You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richar...

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You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy...

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You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy...

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Convulsing on the floor and had called Andy. Why didn’t you call Andy? Why didn’t you go to a diner and wait for me? Why didn’t you call Richard? Why didn’t you call Philippa and make her find me? Why...

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Convulsing on the floor and had called Andy. Why didn’t you call Andy? Why didn’t you go to a diner and wait for me? Why didn’t you call Richard? Why didn’t you call Philippa and make her find me? Why...

Hanya Yanagihara