# Quote — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

> It saddened him, of course, that his sex life and his home life should have to be two distinct realms, but he was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.

- Author: [Hanya Yanagihara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara.md)
- Book: [A Little Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hanya_Yanagihara#A_Little_Life_(2015_novel)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/it-saddened-him

## More from this book

> Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/friendship-was-witnessing.md)

> Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/wasnt-friendship-its.md)

> You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, 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 them 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/you-wont-understand.md)