46 Quotes About Enigma-variations

If only I could dream of you. Sometimes I do. But not often enough. Dreams are like practice runs and mini-rehearsals; they tell us what we'll do, when to ask, how we'll touch when the time comes, if the time comes.

This was all in the head. And that's where it stays.

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

And just as you utter these words, I know with unshakable certainty that those few minutes when we walk hand in hand together are, even in a dream, more real and better than anything I'd ever known in life, and that I would be lying if I called what I've been doing all these years living.

But that reasoning perhaps was as much a mask as the others. In the end, and without ever admitting it to myself, I'd grown to love serving two masters—perhaps so as never truly to answer to either one.

I was his friend. There was nothing more to want.

You're alone, as I'm alone, and the cruelest thing is that finding each other and saying let us be alone together won't solve a thing.

I belonged here the way I belonged to this planet and its people, but on one condition: alone, always alone.

And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.