Jude St Francis Quotes

“Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

But it's for you, Willem.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He had wanted to vanish, then, to close his eyes and reel back time, back to before he had ever met Caleb. He would have turned down Rhodes's invitation; he would have kept living his little life; he would never have known the difference.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“he is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. he cannot unlearn the feeling.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Have you all forgotten? he yearns to ask. Have you forgotten him? Have you forgotten how much I need him? Have you forgotten I don’t know how to be alive without him? Who can teach me? Who can tell me what I should do now?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Willen," Jude said, and was quiet. "I think I turned out pretty normal, all things considered, don´t you?" and Willem had heard the strain, and the hope, in his voice.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Su muerte ya es difícil de asimilar, pero que muriera creyendo que nos debía disculpas es todavía peor; que muriera obstinándose aún en creer que todo lo que le habían enseñado acerca de sí mismo después de ti, después de mí, después de todos los que le queríamos- demuestra mi fracaso: he fracasado en lo único que importaba

- Harold”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Heureux, fallait-il dire. Mais qu'était le bonheur, sinon une lubie, un état impossible à préserver, en partie parce qu'on se l'expliquait si mal ? Enfant, il ne se rappelait pas avoir jamais été en mesure de définir le bonheur : il n'y avait que le malheur ou la peur – ou bien l'absence de malheur et de peur, la seule chose qu'il ait jamais souhaitée ou désirée.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Richard, JB, Andy, vuestros viejos amigos... estuvieron en todo momento ahí, dando vueltas unos alrededor de otros, en estado de shock aunque no del todo, sorprendidos solo de lo sorprendidos que estábamos, destrozados y deshechos pero sobre todo impotentes. ¿Se nos había escapado algo? ¿Podríamos haber hecho algo distinto?

- Harold”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life