Sethu

“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“How very true, I thought. Oliver, I wish that you and I and all those we’ve held dear might live forever in one house…”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Air Froid