We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.

Let the snake that bit you bite me back. Let it bite me on the lip. Die with me.

Looking at him now from the balustrade, I felt something so tender for him that it reminded me how eagerly I had rushed to B. to catch him before he'd even made it into the post office. This was the best person I'd ever known in my life. I had chosen him well.

Tu es la seule personne à qui j'aimerais dire adieu quand je mourrai, parce que seulement alors cette chose que j'appelle ma vie aura un sens... Et si j'apprenais que tu étais mort, ma vie telle que je la connais, le moi qui te parle maintenant, cesserait d'exister.

Perhaps all this gave him a second wind of silliness, of youth.Perhaps he had already been 'there' years earlier and was stopping for a short stay on his return journey home.Perhaps he was playing along, watching me.Perhaps he had never done it with anyone and I'd showed up in the nick of time.

Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere

Perhaps the very least I wanted was for him to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me, that I was no less human than any other young man my age. I would have been satisfied and asked for nothing else than if he'd bent down and picked up the dignity I could so effortlessly have thrown at his feet.