Status Updates From Les Carnets du crocodile

"There are some sorrows so great they are unspeakable, taking hold in the body and leaving a void after the fact. There are some depths that love can never again reach. The mind anoints every fossil with significance in an attempt to preserve it—but in time, they all invariably turn to dust.
Man's greatest sorrow is the loss of what was once his greatest desire."

Ok either I’m stupid or the prose is super erratic and hard to follow. Feels like there’s no logical flow of ideas.

this is lowkey dragging

"Finding myself at the border of life and death, I followed her echo as it led me toward death."

"It reminded me of a scene out of W. Somerset Maugham's memoirs: My life was extraordinarily lacking in all sense of reality, as if I were watching a different me playing various characters within a mirage. I wanted to be kicked out into reality so badly...."

"No matter who I was, no matter how anyone else saw me, no matter whether I knew who I was, somewhere on this planet there was someone who'd completely accept me." absolutely adoring this story 💔 how i wish adult life was not on the way so i could read this faster 😭