words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do
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“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Count Vronsky: I love you!
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!”
― Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!”
― Anna Karenina
“Love conquers, deceitful and slow, With a soft amateurish refrain. So strange to think – not long ago You weren’t dejected and gray.”
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
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