Kaia ⛺️

“But back then, back on Lispenard Street, I didn't know so much of this. Then, we were only standing and looking up at that red-brick building, and I was pretending that I never had to fear for him, and he was letting me pretend this: that all the dangerous things he could have done, all the ways he could have broken my heart, were in the past, the stuff of stories, that the time that lay behind us was scary, but the time that lay ahead of us was not.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He was home, and home was Jude.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“They were his friends, his first friends, and he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges: of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life