Status Updates From In a Strange Room

This is the most accurate portrait of a German I have ever seen

" He is just very tired, too tired to comfort her right now, perhaps
tomorrow he will be strong enough again, and this is a crucial difference
between them, he thinks in terms of tomorrow and the day after that, but for
her there is only now, which is eternity."

"A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made."

-"But it’s for this precisely that you must forgive me,
because in every story of obsession there is only one character, only one
plot. I am writing about myself alone, it’s all I know, and for this reason I
have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of my
life."

" Jerome, if I can’t make you live in words, if you are only the dim evocation
of a face under a fringe of hair, and the others too, Alice and Christian and
Roderigo, if you are names without a nature, it’s not because I don’t
remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless
stirring and turning. "