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“Even though I had always sexualized Thom Wright everyone else now realized he was built, the jawline seemed more pronounced, the hair was now shorter—somewhat ubiquitous among the guys at Buckley (mostly because of haircut regulations) but Thom’s was now something stylish, a moment, a cue to manliness”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“conversation continued. I was the one who felt his frustration and the betrayal. He actually pushed away from”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“When you talk to me you’re really talking to yourself, dude,”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“The day really became effortless once you faked it and it actually became more real because of your changed demeanor; the act became the reality and it affected everything in what seemed like a positive way. In fact, it was preferable to reality.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“I don’t know then that one day I won’t be seventeen. I don’t know that youth doesn’t last, that it’s only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it’s too late. It’s finished, vanished, lost.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don’t see anyone but you and you don’t even realize it. He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I’m afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn’t know how to do it, that the body can resist.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Whereas for him there’s a barrier, an impenetrable wall, forbidding him to deviate from what has been predetermined. Whenever he mentions this question of the forbidden I will try in vain to show him that he’s wrong.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“While the credits roll he says: That scene with the chain saw was great, wasn’t it? I look at him and joke: Yeah, I almost grabbed you at that moment. He smiles back at me and I receive his smile like a gift. There weren’t many times Thomas smiled at me like that. It wasn’t his way.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“I did not understand then that the bac was the end of us.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Because now I know. I know that Thomas consented to this single picture only because he knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Have you noticed how the most beautiful landscapes lose their brilliance as soon as our thoughts prevent us from seeing them properly?”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Lucas adds: Even so, there is something that has always struck me in the photos . . . my father often looks sad. I guess he didn’t like having to smile on command.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“I think: In the end, he remained hidden all his life. In spite of the great departure, the ambitious effort to forge a new existence, he fell back into all the same traps: shame, the impossibility of sharing a love that endures.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that’s too dark or dense or vast.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“He says: It’s a letter that was written a long time ago but never sent. It’s addressed to you. It starts with your first name. It dates from August 1984.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“It was love, of course. And tomorrow, there will be a great emptiness. But we could not continue—you have your life waiting for you, and I will never change. I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Loneliness peels you out of your skin, cuts out your tongue, and abandons you in a stale, locked room to slowly evaporate.”
― Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

“The only people who actually come on this show for love are so brainwashed by the wedding industrial complex, and so convinced their self-worth is tied to matrimony,”
― Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive