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“Nonsense. I wanted you from day one. I just hid it better.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“«When did you know about me?»

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«When you blushed.»”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“There’d be plenty of time for mourning, I thought. It will come, probably on the sly, as I’ve heard these things always do, and there won’t be any getting off lightly, either. Anticipating sorrow to neutralize sorrow—that’s paltry, cowardly stuff, I told myself, knowing I was an ace practitioner of the craft. And what if it came fiercely? What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for him had done on those nights when it seemed there was something so essential missing from my life that it might as well have been missing from my body, so that losing him now would be like losing a hand you could spot in every picture of yourself around the house, but without which you couldn’t possibly be you again.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Why do you write if you have nothing you want to say?” “To have something to do. Something more disgusting than many other things I could do. And more amusing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead