Find Me

by André Aciman

a paradox is never an answer, it’s just a fractured truth, a wisp of meaning without legs.

“Everything in my life was merely prologue until now, merely delay, merely pastime, merely waste of time until I came to know you.”

“Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere. Most of us never meet those who’ll understand our full rounded self. I show people only that sliver of me I think they’ll grasp. I show others other slices. But there’s always a facet of darkness I keep to myself.”

In this I consider myself the luckiest son on earth. You taught me how to love—how to love books, music, beautiful ideas, people, pleasure, even myself.

Time never casts shadows and memory doesn’t drop ashes.”