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

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Of all the billions of people in this world Raphael is the one I know best and love most. I understand much better now – better than Piranesi ever could – the magnificent thing she did in coming to find me, the magnitude of her courage. I know that she returns to the labyrinth often. Sometimes we go together; sometimes she goes alone. The quiet and

Wanting too much. To love, to be loved.

I craved him but I could just as easily live without him, and either way was fine.