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“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Every time I go back to Rome, I go back to that one spot. It is still alive for me, still resounds with something totally present, as though a heart stolen from a tale by Poe still throbbed under the ancient slate pavement to remind me that, here, I had finally encountered the life that was right for me but had failed to have.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."

"But you're doing it now--in a way."

"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You'll kill me if you stop.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Zwischen Immer und Nie. Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though perhaps this was what I had wanted all along. To wait forever. ”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Do I like you?’ I wanted to sound incredulous, as though to question how he could ever have doubted such a thing. But then I thought better of it and was on the point of softening the tone of my answer with a meaning-fully evasive Perhaps that was supposed to mean Abso-lutely, when I let my tongue loose: ‘Do I like you, Oliver? I worship 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 bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything — what a waste!”
― 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

“Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“وكان قلبي خالياً قبل حبكم
وكان بذكر الخلق يلهو ويمزحُ

فلما دعا قلبي هواك أجابه
فلستُ أراه عن فنانك يبرحُ

رُميت ببين منك إن كنت كاذباً
إذا كنت في الدنيا بغيرك أفرح

وإن كان شيءٌ في البلاد بأسرها
إذا غبت عن عيني بعيني يلمحُ

فإن شئت واصلني وإن شئت لا تصل
فلستُ أرى قلبي لغيرك يصلحُ”
― سمنون المحب

“بينما كنت أسير في البادية، إذ مررت بحجر مكتوب عليه هذا البيت:

أيا معشر العشاق بالله خبِّروا ..... إذا حل عشق بالفتى كيف يصنعُ

فكتبت تحته البيت التالي:
يداري هواه ثم يكتم سرَّه ..... ويخشع في كل الأمور ويخضعُ

ثم يقول: عدت في اليوم التالي فوجدت مكتوبا تحته هذا البيت:
وكيف يداري والهوى قاتل الفتى ..... وفي كل يوم قلبه يتقطعُ

فكتبت تحته البيت التالي:
إذا لم يجد صبرًا لكتمان سرِّه ..... فليس له شيء سوى الموت ينفعُ

يقول الأصمعي: فعدت في اليوم الثالث، فوجدت شابًّا ملقىً تحت ذلك الحجر ميتًا، ومكتوبٌ تحته هذان البيتان:
سمعنا أطعنا ثم متنا فبلِّغوا ..... سلامي إلى من كان بالوصل يمنعُ
هنيئًا لأرباب النعيم نعيمهمْ ..... وللعاشق المسكين ما يتجرعُ”
― الأصمعي

“ومن يتهيب صعود الجبال يعش أبَــدَ الدهــر بيــن الحــفرْ
فعجَّــتْ بقلبــي دمــاءُ الشـباب وضجَّــت بصـدري ريـاحٌ أخَـرْ...
وأطـرقتُ, أصغـي لقصـف الرعـودِ وعــزفِ الريــاحِ, ووقـعِ المطـرْ”
― أبو القاسم الشابي, أغاني الحياة

“قولوا لها إنني لازلت أهواها

مهما يطول النوى لا أنسى ذِكراها

هي الأمالي من الدنيا هي أملي

هي السعادة ما أحلى وأشهاها

قولوا لها إنني لازلت أهواها

هي التي علّمتني كيف أعشقـُها

هي التي قد سقتني شَهْدَ ريّاها

الشّعر من وحيِها درٌّ مرصّعٌ

والفنّ من سحرها واللحن مغناها

روحٌ من الله سوّاها لنا بشراً

كساها حُسناً وجمّلها وحلاّها

فإن عبدتـُها لاإشراك بالله

لأنّني في هواها أعبدُ الله”
― شعر التراث

“أوّلُ العلم الصمت، والثاني الاستماع، والثالث الحفظ، والرابع العمل، والخامس نشره.."‏”
― الأصمعي