Gracie

“He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He will be reminded of how trapped he is, trapped in a body he hates, with a past he hates, and how he will never be able to change either.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life