You Don't Love Me Yet

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.

You can't be deep without a surface

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

All Thinking is Wishful.

Escúchame. Soy tímido. No tonto. No puedo mirar a la gente a los ojos. No sé si entiendes lo que se siente. Hay todo un mundo que existe a mi alrededor, lo sé. No es que no quiera mirarte. Es que no quiero que me vean. Tengo miedo de lo que veréis dentro de mi. Me avergüenzo, me da miedo que me mires a los ojos y descubras algo malo, estropeado.

La calidad de una cena la determinan las conversaciones secundarias que la mayoría de la mesa no oye.

You can't be deep without a surface.