Emily

“They made me, and make me, into someone better than I really am... You won't understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are-not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving-and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad-or good-it may be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Eventually he would learn how to fold those months into his life and accept them and keep going. He always had.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I would rather have him suffering and alive -than dead.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was human history, masquerading as God's Purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things