Nicholas Sébastien

“Just promise to let me keep it after you’re gone.” “That’s all?” “Well, wear it a lot today—and don’t swim in it.” “Sick and twisted.” “Sick and twisted and very, very sad.” “I’ve never seen you like this.” “I want Billowy too. And the espadrilles. And the sunglasses. And you.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I (Socrates) know that ‘my knowledge is not complete’. I know my own ignorance. The Sophists, on the other hand, those would-be wise men, intend to understand everything and know nothing of their own ignorance. In this respect—my knowledge of my own ignorance—I am more of a wise man than they are. This is the context of Socrates’ famous statement, ‘I know that I know nothing.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Or, when I wasn't practicing the guitar and he wasn't listening to his headphones, still with his straw hat flat on his face, he would suddenly break the silence:

'Elio.'

'Yes?'

'What are you doing?'

'Reading.'

'No, you're not.'

'Thinking, then.'

'About?'

I was dying to tell him.

'Private,' I replied.

'So you won't tell me?'

'So I won't tell you.'

'So he won't tell me,' he repeated, pensively, as if explaining to someone about me.

How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of a gesture, which happens to be totally accidental the first time but becomes intentional the second time and more so yet the third.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Is there sorcery involved when you love me here, or when we first meet in a public place?”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana