“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything? What a waste.”— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”— André Aciman; Call Me By Your Name
“He came. He left. Nothing had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”— André Aciman, Call Me By Your name, pg. 199
“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”— Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman
whether you are the cause or the effect, I am glad you happened
