Call Me by Your Name
if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I’d stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
If not later, Elio, when?
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
This is where I dreamed of you before you came into my life.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you,
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
You make me like who I am, who I become when you’re with me, Oliver.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
Please, don’t hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
Gee wiz
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since.