Lie With Me Quotes

“Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Philippe Besson

“He tells me something I did not know: that I will leave.”
― Philippe Besson

“If I shut up, it’s just to avoid being confronted by violence. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. I prefer to see it as a kind of necessary self-protection. But I will never change. I will never think: It’s bad, or It would be better to be like everyone else, or I will lie to them so that they’ll accept me. Never. I stick to who I am. In silence, of course, but it’s a proud, stubborn silence.”
― Philippe Besson

“I would have liked to have seen which [parent] he most resembled.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Philippe, I’m going to Spain and I’m not coming back, at least not right
away. You are going to Bordeaux and I know it will be only the first step in a
long journey. I always knew you were made for somewhere else. Our paths
are separating. I know you would have liked for things to be different, for me
to say the words that would have reassured you, but I could not, and I never
knew how to talk anyway. In the end, I tell myself that you understood. 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