16 Quotes by Abdellah Taïa

He led me, in total silence, to this place I hadn’t discovered before, a place not far from la Placette: the public toilets. Once inside, I realized this place was all about something the rest of Geneva didn’t have: intense poetic sexuality.A dozen men of all ages were lined up in front of the urinals and were lovingly looking at cock.

Sex, regardless of who we have it with, should never scare us.

From drama to tragedy is a short step.

True love, the kind that lasts and survives for years, is always full of passion and craziness.

Lose myself entirely, the better to find myself. To summon, one gray and very cold morning, an army for my own salvation

Today, looking back, I tell myself that anything is possible.

I would always surrender myself, even among infidels. I don’t exist for myself anymore. I exist for him, belong to him. My life is not my own.

Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.