114 Quotes About Call-me-by-your-name
- Author André Aciman
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I was happy that the room would revert to me. In my/his room, it would be easier to remember our nights.No, better keep my current room. Then, at least, I could pretend he was still in his, and if he wasn't there, that he was still out as he so frequently used to be on those nights when I counted the minutes, the hours, the sounds.
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Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.
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You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.
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If I put my foot on the floor and pretend that his is just behind the leg of the table, will that foot, like a starship that has turned on its cloaking device, like a ghost summoned by the living, suddenly materialize from its dimple in space and say, I know you've beckoned. Reach and you'll find me?
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He is right, there is no denying it,' said my father under his breath, as though mimicking the part of a cowered Galileo forced to mutter the truth to himself.
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But that moment of what seemed like bliss now when we'd walked our bikes on the piazzetta both before and after our talk belonged to another time segment, as though it had happened to another me in some other life that was not too different from my own, but removed enough to make the few seconds that kept us apart seem like light-years away.
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