✿ nhubert

“For me, love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given. As for my spirit of admiration, I never even imagined it be a thing that required some sort of answer.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I’d stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“He wanted to blame the books, the sci-fi, but he couldn’t—he loved them too much.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room