Julien Grimard

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“Quand il est trop sollicité par les tâches multiples de la vie ‒ ouvrir un compte de REER, faire réparer une fenêtre, parler à un notaire, voir l'hygiéniste dentaire ‒, une grande tristesse le prend.
Je lui propose de l'aider, mais la plupart du temps, je ne peux rien faire d'autre que de l'accompagner, en char et en os ou en pensée.”
― Martine Delvaux, C'est quand le bonheur

“I think what I want is for someone to know me. Really know me. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the more I think about it, the more I think long-term relationships are for getting to know someone. I want someone to know me, really know me, almost like that person could get into my head. What would that feel like? To have access, to know what it’s like in someone else’s head. To rely on someone else, have him rely on you. That’s not a biological connection like the one between parents and children. This kind of relationship would be chosen. It would be something cooler, harder to achieve than one built on biology and shared genetics.

I think that’s it. Maybe that’s how we know when a relationship is real. When someone else previously unconnected to us knows us in a way we never thought or believed possible.

I like that.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Can't I just be afraid without a definite object?”
― Lars von Trier