Find Me

by André Aciman

“Aren’t those the absolute worst scenarios: the things that might have happened but never did and might still happen though we’ve given up hoping they could.”

None of us may want to claim to live life in two parallel lanes but all have many lives, one tucked beneath or right alongside the other. Some lives wait their turn because they haven’t been lived at all, while others die before they’ve lived out their time, and some are waiting to be relived because they haven’t been lived enough.

Death is God’s great blunder, and sunset and dawn are how he blushes for shame and asks our forgiveness each and every day.

some people may be brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.”

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