Löuthebird

“It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Think of the pain before the pain”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Living means dying with regrets stuck in your craw. As the French poet says, 'Le temps d'apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard', by the time we learn to live, it's already too late.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste! (…) How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we got two lives, one is the mockup, the other the finished version. But there’s only one and before you know it, your heart is worn out. Right now there’s sorrow. I don’t envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name