Julian Sharp

“Your sadness is a place which you inhabit. Sadness is a geographical reality. I cannot join you in that sadness, it is impossible. Millions of you know this sadness, but not I. I do not even try to imagine this sadness; to do so would be absurd. I am elsewhere, that is all. I do not resent the fact that I am elsewhere. Nobody could resent me for it. I am in your arms: this is all I know. I have this extraordinary knowledge, this knowledge of the space between your arms. It is my happiness. Happiness, too, is a geographical reality.”
― Philippe Besson