# Quote — Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

> It is astonishing and a little sad to realize how many discoveries, how many advancements, have been delayed for years, for decades, not because the information was unavailable but because of sheer cowardice, fear of being laughed at, of being ostracized by one's colleagues.

- Author: [Hanya Yanagihara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara.md)
- Book: [The People in the Trees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/the-people-in-the-trees.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/the-people-in-the-trees/it-is-astonishing

## More from this book

> Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.

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> Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/the-people-in-the-trees/sometimes-i-would.md)

> Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another's appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck by the profound, enervating awareness of how inadequate we are, how nothing, not intelligence or education or money, can usurp or overpower or deny beauty.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/the-people-in-the-trees/beautiful-people-make.md)