"I Was Dismayed By How Casually Cruel Or Dismissive We Are Of People Who Find Life Too Much To Bear.

me because i was actually not able to breathe by the end 🩷

Me back to when I finished Dear comrade AND Lispenard street in ONE sitting

yeah jude u right it was a miracle to survive the unsurvivable

"The only person who sees Jude for exactly who he is, is Malcolm..." "..and Jude hates him for it, Jude resents him for it.." "..the interventions Malcolm makes in his home."

- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life Play interview

"Willem's flaw is pretending....." "when you're having sex with someone, you can usually tell when they're not enjoying it.."

(indirect, Hanya's words, yet not in the interview ; "Harold's greatest flaw is not trying hard enough. He has compassion and love for those in his life, but he should have gone further."

"Andy, simply, is a bad doctor.")

Thinking about the wildflowers that Willem and Jude planted in the fields around their house and how they’re probably still growing, year after year. They probably spread out over time, with no one to mow them or trim them back. They probably smother the house now, growing right up to the doorstep.

The happy years didn’t last long enough. But the flowers will continue to grow.

a life together

moments from a little life

it’s just. the way to the man in rome, jude is just a good looking boy who he complemented to his father, but the man will never know everything that happened to jude. that jude thinks he’s horrifically ugly. the way jude’s story ends. it makes me so fucking ill

not going to lie a specific scene in the book that really fucking hits me sometimes and i need to double down is when someone tells harold jude is beautiful . i just can’t. there’s something so solemn about it

“a little life is ableist”

SHUT UP SHUT IP

as a disabled person when i read “people who had been made disabled felt they had been robbed of something” i had to put the fucking book down and recollect BECAUSE HANYA GOT IT SO CORRECT SO SHUT THE FUCK UP

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

jb if he was given responsibility over titling the chapters:

A 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 Life👅

Lispenard 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴

The 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴man👅

Vanities

Axiom of 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴s

The happy 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴s

Dear 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴👅

Lispenard 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 2