heartbreak hotel

when hanya yanagihara said “and so i try to be kind in everything i see, because in everything i see, i see him” and when hanya yanagihara said “‘what can i do?’ willem asked. ‘nothing,’ jude said. they were quiet. ‘but willem—will you stay with me for a little while?’ ‘of course,’ he said” and when hanya yanagihara said “those lines he thought of whenever he was coming home, coming back to greene street after a long time away—“and tell me this: i must be absolutely sure. this place i’ve reached, is it truly ithaca?”—as all around him, the apartment filled with light” and when hanya yanagihara said “they all loved jude, and admired him, but he often felt that jude had let him see a little more of him—just a little—than he had shown the others, and was unsure what he was supposed to do with that knowledge” and when hanya yanagihara said “why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? why wasn’t it even better? it was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified” and when hanya yanagihara said “‘and who are you?’ ‘i’m willem ragnarasson and i will never let you go’” and when hanya yanagihara said “since then, willem has held him in the same way every night, even through july” and when hanya yanagihara said “finally, and most important, jude st francis, my best friend and love of my life, for everything” and whe

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