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“Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I'm colliding with a wall that won't give. There's no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“When one person collapses, the other instinctively shoulders their weight.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than it was to get permission.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“But of course it couldn't last. Nothing good ever does.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“Old habits die hard.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“For dead men tell no tales.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“There's a will, there's a way my friend.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“He who hesitates is lost, my friend.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“Stupid is as stupid does.”
― Philip Carlo, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

“Even individuals we admire can have skeletons in their closet.”
― Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

“When you are explaining, you're losing...”
― Jon Krakauer

“...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

“Sometimes he was hit hard enough so that he lost consciousness, which is wat he began to crave: that blackness, where time passed and he wasn't in it, where things were done to him but he didn't know it.”
― 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

“having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The only trick of friendships, 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 for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad -or good- it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It is always easier to believe wat you already think than to try to change your mind.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“This was what you did for people you loved: you gave them their freedom.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Jude- if you keep lying to someone who loves you, who really loves you, who has only ever wanted to see you exactly as you are- then you will only have yourself to blame. It will be your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“If you love home- and even if you don't- there is nothing quite as cozy, as comfortable, as delightful, as that first week back.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And, of course, there is the person you come back to: his face and body and voice and scent and touch, his way of waiting until you finish whatever you're saying, no matter how lengthy, before he speaks, the way his smile moves so slowly across his face that it reminds you of moonrise, how clearly he has missed you and how clearly happy he is to have you back.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“As you got older, you realized that really, there were very few people you truly wanted to be around for more than a few days at a time.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty- and you get to pick three of those things. Three- that's it. Maybe four, if you're very lucky. The rest you have to look for elsewhere.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“As you got older, you realized that the qualities you valued in the people you slept with or dated weren't neccesarily the ones you wanted to live with, or be with, or plod through your days with. If you were smart, and if you were lucky, you learned this and accepted this. you figured out what was the most important to you and you looked for it, and you learned to be realistic.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And the dead can speak to no one.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life