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We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given only once.

In the weeks we’d been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours

What a page!

“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t sniff it out, don’t be brutal with it.

We rip out so much of ourselves as to be cured of things faster than er should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we star with someone new.

But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”

I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came.

Rehearse the pain to dull the pain.

“I wish I had one friend I wasn’t destined to lose”

“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only”

It sounded like a preamble to farewells

I envied him the privilege of putting himself down

“In the dark they say all cats…” he doesn’t finish the quote which prompted me to look up this saying.
In the dark all cats are gray. In certain scenarios differences no longer matter. If Oliver does not like him, it will not matter in this moment. Elio stops himself as he gets caught up in his thoughts of this moment he has planned with Oliver. (Very interesting detail!)

“You know very well I’m not going anywhere”

“I knew they didn’t suspect a thing, and it bothered me-though I wouldn’t have wanted it otherwise.”