Lily Malone

“But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? (But then, a sole option was no option at all.)”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We revel in men like Beecham, Moore—they are the easy repositories of all that is dark in our very social world. But the things that helped make Beecham what he was? Those, we tolerate. Those, we even enjoy…”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“At first, it had been disorienting, after so many years of operating as a foursome, but he had gotten used to it, and although he missed JB—his witty self-involvement, the way he could see everything the world had to offer only as it might affect him—he also found himself unable to forgive him and, simultaneously, able to see his life without him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won’t be helped while realizing that if you don’t try to help, then you’re not being a friend at all?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life