Kate Jerome

“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

“Because I would have rather known what it felt like to have had you for a summer than to have not had you at all.”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was Hypaxia.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath