A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.

Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.

He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.