André Aciman

“Is it that you don’t like people, or that you just grow tired of them and can’t for the life of you remember why you ever found them interesting?”

with strangers opening up is easy.”

People trust you and want to open up to you, maybe because they like who they are when they’re with you

“Is it that you don’t like people, or that you just grow tired of them and can’t for the life of you remember why you ever found them interesting?”

with strangers opening up is easy.”

“I hate to see anyone hurt.”

I can’t stand being by myself yet I can’t wait to be alone. Look at me. I am alone here on a train, happy to be with my book, away from a man I won’t ever love, but I would much rather talk to a stranger. No offense, I hope.”

the things that might have happened but never did and might still happen though we’ve given up hoping they could.

Do you like coming home?”

“I used to.”

some people may be brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never
found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.