Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

It's a constant thing we do in life... I marry someone or have kids; these are the evolutions of life that we go on. There are constant shifts.

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

We have ambitions, we go on with our lives. We get married and have families. But I was interested to know what happens to those girls who become mothers and grandmothers. They sacrificed their self at a time when they were young and healthy.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

There's going to come a time when maybe I have kids and a wife.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.