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    André Aciman
    “We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: relationships
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    André Aciman
    “People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: readers
    1207 likes

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    “It was James who had an ego the size of a lake but a heart to match it.”
    ― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes
    tags: jamespotter
    152 likes

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  • #4
    “You were beautiful”
    ― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes
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  • #5
    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: words
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    M.L. Rio
    “Were you in love with him?'
    'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, death, death-of-a-loved-one, greek, greek-mythology, lgbt, lgbtq, love, mythology, patroclus, trojan-war
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    Madeline Miller
    “I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, love, never, patrochilles, patroclus
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    Madeline Miller
    “Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, dead, mourning, patrochilles, patroclus, sound
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    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, dead, name, patrochilles, patroclus, weeping
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  • #11
    “You were my little bit of magic.”
    ― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes
    tags: alltheyoungdudes, atyd, grantchapman, love, remuslupin
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  • #12
    “By the time that wretched summer term ended, the only person Remus despised more than Sirius was himself, for continuing to love him just the same.”
    ― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes
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  • #13
    Madeline Miller
    “He was watching me, his eyes as deep as earth.
    "Will you come with me?" he asked.
    The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whispered. "Yes.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could not make him a god," she says. Her jagged voice, rich with grief.
    /But you made him./”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: mythology
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  • #15
    André Aciman
    “Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.

    'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.

    I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: allusion, andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, emily-bronte, love, oliver-and-elio, soul-mates, wuthering-heights
    87 likes

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  • #16
    André Aciman
    “And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.'

    Silence again.

    'Perhaps I am not yet ready to speak of them as strangers,' I said.

    'If it makes you feel any better, I don't think either of us ever will be.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, looking-back, oliver-and-elio, regret, sad
    78 likes

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    André Aciman
    “We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut or not sufficiently open.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, father, father-and-son, honesty, opening-up
    37 likes

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  • #18
    André Aciman
    “We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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  • #19
    André Aciman
    “Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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  • #20
    M.L. Rio
    “One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: language, words
    600 likes

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  • #21
    M.L. Rio
    “There is no comfort like complicity.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    356 likes

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  • #22
    M.L. Rio
    “You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: love, real, romance
    296 likes

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  • #23
    M.L. Rio
    “I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: mystery
    236 likes

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  • #24
    M.L. Rio
    “Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
    The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: literary-fiction, mystery, mystery-thriller, thriller
    221 likes

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  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Et tu, Brute?”
    ― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar
    tags: betrayal, brutus, julius-caesar, shakespeare
    887 likes



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