Amber

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You’ll kill me if you stop, you’ll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle the dream and the fantasy, me and him, the longed-for words from his mouth to my mouth back into his mouth, swapping words from mouth to mouth, which was when I must have begun using obscenities that he repeated after me, softly at first, till he said, “Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“The weirdest thing about Tibet is that the most popular beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Everywhere, even on the slopes of Everest, cans of Pabst lay alongside the road labeled, 'Established in Milwaukee in 1849'.”
― Scott Stoll, Falling Uphill: 25,742 Miles, 1461 Days, 50 Countries, 6 Continents & 4 Monents of Enlightenment on a Bicycle

“Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name