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“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“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?”
― Call Me by Your Name
― 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!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
Abi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
597 books
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19 friends
971 books
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148 books
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269 books
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79 books
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3 friends
4 books
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4 friends
256 books
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8 friends
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