#harold stein

“what he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier”

— hanya yanagihara, a little life.

Yes I did finish the little life and yes I did cry multiple times throughout the whole entire book but I swear to god that nothing I’ve ever read in my entire life has broken me as much as Harold calling jude “my sweetheart, my baby” after jude refuses to eat and has thrown his plate at the wall and jude breaking down for he has never been anyone’s baby until this moment, he has never got the chance to throw a tantrum, and cry and scream and been forgiven, he has never gotten the chance to be a child until now.