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“Is this why people say “maybe” when they mean “yes,” but hope you’ll think it’s “no” when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Whatever happens between us, Elio, I just want you to know. Don’t ever say you didn’t know.” He was still chewing. In the heat of passion it would have been one thing. But this was quite another. He was taking me away with him. His words made no sense. But I knew exactly what they meant.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I’d hold you and kiss you if I could.” “Me too.” I came up to his ear as he was just about to enter the post office and whispered, “Fuck me, Elio.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I knew that he was filled with grief when he finally kissed me one last time in one of the bathroom stalls at Fiumicino Airport”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand; but, as all superstitious people do, to see if my willingness to accept the very worst might induce fate to soften its blow. Like soldiers trained to fight by night, I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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