{"author":"Hanya Yanagihara","author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara","total_quotes":74,"quotes":[{"text":"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 want to know what happens in the end?' 'No, JB,' said Jude. 'I'm only halfway through.'The minister character dies after all.'JB!'After that, JB's mood seemed to improve.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a-little-life","book-spoilers","books","hanya-yanagihara","humor","novels","reader-problems","spoilers","we-all-know-this-person"],"id":22812,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["culture","ethics","moral-relativism","morals"],"id":26248,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":". . . Breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a-little-life","hanya-yanagihara","heart","soothe"],"id":26693,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["book","novel","therapeutic"],"id":48634,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a little life","fresh start","hanya yanagihara","opportunity"],"id":53570,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"I know my life's meaningful because' - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - ' because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["life","meaning"],"id":69091,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a-little-life","hanya-yanagihara","life","metaphor","worn-down"],"id":72746,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["life-experience"],"id":77554,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"These galleries are hung, mostly, with images from 'Frog and Toad,' and he moves from each to each, not really seeing them but rather remembering the experience of viewing them for the first time, in JB's studio, when he and Willem were new to each other, when he felt as if he was growing new body parts—a second heart, a second brain—to accommodate this excess of feeling, the wonder of his life.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a-little-life","brain","descriptive","feeling","feelings","frog-and-toad","hanya-yanagihara","heart"],"id":80274,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"},{"text":"...He lacked the sort of ambition that JB and Jude had, that grim, trudging determination that kept them at the studio or office longer than anyone else, that gave them that slightly faraway look in their eyes that always made him think a fraction of them was already living in some imagined future, the contours of which were crystallized only to them.","author":"Hanya Yanagihara","tags":["a-little-life","ambition","determination","faraway","future","hanya-yanagihara"],"id":92563,"author_id":"Hanya+Yanagihara"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}