"If there is pain, nurse it, and if……" — André Aciman
"If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. 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! (p. 225)"
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All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
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At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were…
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No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of…
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