Call Me by Your Name
why this thing that could so easily cause panic felt like hope sometimes and, like hope in the darkest moments, brought such joy, unreal joy, joy with a noose tied around it.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go
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I began to wonder what turn my life would have taken had someone else shown up instead. I wouldn’t have gone to Rome. But I might have gone elsewhere. Wouldn’t have known the first thing about San Clemente. But I might have discovered something else which I’d missed out on and might never know about. Wouldn’t have changed, would never be who I am t
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it was really dedicated to him, as a token of something very beautiful in me that would take no genius to figure out and that urged me to throw in an extended cadenza. Just for him.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they might ever die.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
I squirreled away small things so that in the lean days ahead glimmers from the past might bring back the warmth. I began, reluctantly, to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I’d incur in the future.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
find out for myself why others are so necessary in life and not just foreign bodies to be sidled up to.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.