Lily Malone

“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

“Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated,” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“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

“You’re going to make friends, Felix,” he says, finally. “You will. You won’t have to work as hard at finding them as you will at keeping them, but I promise, it’ll be work worth doing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life