114 Quotes About Call-me-by-your-name

I think we should go.”"Not yet.

But down below along the rocky shore, in the moonlight, I caught sight of him.

Cuando volvimos a la librería, dejamos nuestras bicicletas fuera y entramos. Me sentí especial. Como si le mostrase a alguien una capilla privada, una guarida secreta, el lugar donde, como ocurrió con el muro, uno viene a estar solo, a soñar con los demás. Aquí es donde soñé contigo antes de que entrases en mi vida

This felt special. Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to dream of others. This is where I dreamed of you before you came into my life.

Finally his voice came through. 'Elio,' he said. I could hear my parents and the voices of children in the background. No one could say my name that way. 'Elio,' I repeated, to say it was I speaking but also to spark our old game and show I'd forgotten nothing. 'It's Oliver,' he said. He had forgotten.

Never in my life had I been so happy. Nothing could go wrong, everything was happening my way, all the doors were clicking open one by one, and life couldn't have been more radiant: it was shining right at me, and when I turned my bike left or right, or tried to move away from its light, it followed me as limelight follows an actor onstage. I craved him but I could just as easily live without him, and either way was fine.

But I couldn't even remember last night's anxieties. They were completely overshadowed by what followed them and seemed to belong to a segment of time to which I had no access whatsoever.

That day belongs to a different time warp. We should learn to leave sleeping dogs—

Leaning out into the evening air, I knew that this might never be given to us again, and yet I couldn't bring myself to believe it.