“ He joined Jude in the kitchen and began making a salad, and JB slumped to the dining-room table and started flipping through a novel Jude had left there. "I read this," he called over to him. "Do you… Hanya Yanagihara
“ He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged. Hanya Yanagihara
“ He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.''I'm not going to,' he said. 'I can do other things in life besides cry, you know,' although he was no longer sure that was even true. Hanya Yanagihara
“ In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by da… Hanya Yanagihara
“ . . .the particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked in a silken cape. Hanya Yanagihara
“ He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day. Hanya Yanagihara
“ His persistent nostalgia depressed him, aged him, and yet he couldn't stop feeling that the most glorious years, the years when everything seemed drawn in florescents, were gone. Everyone had been so… Hanya Yanagihara
“ That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly. Hanya Yanagihara
“ He didn't really care if they felt that way or not: he just needed them to say it, he needed to feel that something lay beneath their imperturbable calm, that somewhere within them ran a thin stream o… Hanya Yanagihara
