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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Most of our time is spent not in the present tense, as we so often claim, but in the irrealis mood—the mood of our fantasy life, the mood where we can shamelessly envision what might be, should be, could have been, who we ourselves wished we really were if only we knew the open sesame to what might otherwise have been our true lives.”
― Homo Irrealis: Essays
― Homo Irrealis: Essays
“Zwischen Immer und Nie. Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in just, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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