Miriam

“I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“A volte gli era capitato di pregare, mentre faceva l’amore. Il suo sguardo si distendeva sulla nudità del corpo desiderato con una devozione castissima, addirittura verginale. Sentiva il miracolo di avere accanto a sé la bellezza della creazione e di poterla contemplare in silenzio. Di poterla toccare, assorto, con la punta delle dita così come, con lo sguardo, poteva accarezzare, in certi tramonti, la montagna. Non lo sfiorava nemmeno lontanamente l’idea del possesso e del dominio dell’altro. Non voleva rubare niente, né pretendere, né strappar via. Voleva che tutto si mantenesse intatto in un senso di gratitudine e di pienezza.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“He had this really amazing party trick where sometimes he could go a full hour without even once being suddenly reminded of the paralyzing truth that his life was finite and unrepeatable.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory