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“There’s the sorrow of losing someone we liked, but there is also the suffering caused by the unfortunate ways a lover acted at the end which tells us about them, but not really about us. We may not be able to escape the agony of a broken heart but we can always strive to keep the suffering to a wise minimum.”
― The School of Life, Heartbreak

“All this means is that in ten days when I look out to this spot, you won’t be here. I don’t know what I’ll do then. At least you’ll be elsewhere, where there are no memories.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I began, reluctantly, to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I’d incur in the future.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Could intimacy endure once indecency was spent and our bodies had run out of tricks?”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name