Hanya Yanagihara

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He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved

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All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember

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He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person

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He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.''I'm not going to,' he said. 'I can do other things in life besides cry, you know,' although he was no longer sure that was even true

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I have never been one of those people who feels that the love one has for a child is somehow a superior love, one more meaningful, more significant, and grander than any other.[...] But it is a singular love, because it is a love whose foundation is not physical attraction, or pleasure, or intellect, but fear. You never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent, because the fear itself is more magnificent. Every day, your first thought is not "I love him" but "how is he?" The world, overnight, rearranges itself into an obstacle course of terrors