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“What lies ahead is going to be very difficult. Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has its cunning way of finding our weakest spot.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.”
― André Aciman

“«Chiagneva sempe ca durmeva sola,
mo dorme co' li muorte accompagnata.

She always wept because she slept alone,
Now she sleeps among the dead.»

I can, from the distance of years now, still think I'm hearing the voices of two young men singing these words in Neapolitan toward daybreak, neither realizing, as they held each other and kissed again and again on the dark lanes of old Rome, that this was the last night they would ever make love again.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“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.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name