Harold Stein személy

Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara: Egy kis élet

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Ezért igyekszem kedves lenni mindenhez, amit látok, és mindenben, amit látok, őt látom.

782. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Harold Stein · Jude St. Francis
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„Jude,” Harold says to him, quietly. „My poor Jude. My poor sweetheart.” And with that, he starts to cry, for no one has ever called him sweetheart, not since Brother Luke. […] „My sweetheart,” Harold says again, and he wants him to stop; he wants him to never stop. „My baby.” And he cries and cries for every old hurt, for every old happiness, cries for the shame and joy of finally getting to be a child, with all of a child's whims and wants and insecurities, for the privilege of behaving badly and being forgiven, for the luxury of tenderness, of fondnesses, of being seved a meal and being made to eat it, for the ability, at last, at last, of believing a parent's reassurances, of believing that to someone he is special despite all his mistakes and hatefulness, because of all his mistakes and hatefulness.

792-793. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Harold Stein · Jude
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Or maybe he is closer, still: maybe he is that gray cat that has begun to sit outside our neighbor's house, purring when I reach out my hand to it; maybe he is that new puppy I see tugging at the end of my other neighbor's leash; maybe he is that toddler I saw running through the square a few months ago, shrieking with joy, his parents huffing after him; maybe he is that flower that suddenly bloomed on the rhododendron bush I thought had died long ago; maybe he is that cloud, that wave, that rain, that mist. It isn't only that he died, or how he died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

814. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Harold Stein · Jude
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„You jumped off the roof?” I repeated. „Why on earth would you have done such a thing?”
„It's a good story,” he said. He even grinned at me. „I'll tell you.”
„Please,” I said.
And then he did.

814. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Harold Stein · Jude
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But what was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? (But then, a sole option was no option at all.) „Thousands of years of evolutionary and social development and this is our only choice?” […]
„I agree with Malcolm's dad that couplehood is wonderful, but all you really have to do is just be a good person, which you already are, and enjoy your life. You're young. You have years and years to figure out what you want to do and how you want to live.”

256. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Harold Stein · Willem