Abi

“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There they were, the legacy of youth, the two mascots of my life, hunger and fear, watching over me, saying "So many before you have taken the chance and been rewarded, why can't you?" No answer. "So many have balked, so why must you?" No answer. And then it came, as ever deriding me: "If not later, Elio, when?”
― 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