Kyle

“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

“Alicia's eyes? Brown. Gabrielle's? Gabrielle I don't remember. Eye color it's not really that important green blue brown it's more the way the gaze affects you. Lebrun for example his eyes they bored into you when he turned your way when he trained them on you but the thing is when people think they're seeing into you at the same time they're leaving themselves open that's what I discovered just when they think they're learning everything there is to know about you is the time when their own souls are the most revealed it's a two-way street.”
― Thomas Rayfiel, In Pinelight

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Oh god, I thought, can nothing in this jungle behave as it ought? Must fruits move and trees breathe and freshwater rivers taste of the ocean? Why must nothing obey the laws of nature? Why must everything point so heavily toward the existence of enchantment?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees