Some live for love more than others. And he experienced a death that night.

If your friends don’t want your boyfriend, what’s the point?

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives – for lives are static things, readings of already written papers – but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good pattern, others have the opposite luck – and you can surely see by now that your life is doomed to this same humiliation, endlessly repeated.

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style – all the things one shouldn’t throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral – everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

When you put something down that happened, people often don’t believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

It was all over: dead. He had no idea, where Frankie had gone. But what was worse, he was everywhere.

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.

He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what was right, and remained a ghost.

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives—for lives are static things, readings of already written papers—but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good pattern, others have the opposite luck—and you can surely see by now that your life is doomed to this same humiliation, endlessly repeated.