“I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you s...” — Hanya Yanagihara Quote

“I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.”

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. [...] The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all of those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. [...] If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.”