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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay, on anything from the smell of rosemary on hot days to the frantic rattle of the cicadas in the afternoon—smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“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. (p. 225)”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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