Lie With Me: 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman

Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.

In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.

The desire for constant movement will come after, the impossibility of staying in one place, the hatred of the roots that hold you there, Doesn’t matter where you go, just change the scenery, says the lyric to a song.

I am an exemplary student, one who never misses a class, who almost always gets the best grades, who is the pride of his teachers. Today, I’d like to slap this seventeen-year-old kid, not because of the good grades but because of his incessant need to please those who would judge him.