Cmbyn Quotes

“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.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?”
― Marguerite de Navarre, HEPTAMERON

“Le soleil était sur moi et j'aimais le soleil d'un amour quasi païen pour les choses de la terre. (...) Je n'avais jamais su combien j'aimais la terre, le soleil, la mer. Les gens, les objets, même l'art semblaient venir après.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You can always talk to me. I was your age once, my father used to say. The things you feel and think only you have felt, believe me, I've lived and suffered through all of them, and more than once -some I've never gotten over and others I'm as ignorant about as you are today, yet I know almost every bend, every tollbooth, every chamber in the human heart.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Call me by your name and I´ll call you by mine”
― André Aciman,

“When you least expect it, nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot”
― André Aciman