CALL ME BY YOUR NAME - ANDRE ACIMAN

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 133

I had, as I'd never before in my life, the distinct feeling of arriving somewhere very dear, of wanting this forever, of being me, me, me, me, and no one else, just me, of finding in each shiver that ran down my arms something totally alien and yet by no means unfamiliar, as if all this had been a part of me all of my life and I'd misplaced it and he had helped me find it.  

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 130

What else is there to do but to respond in kind when someone touches your toes with his toes? 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 124

I want to know your body, I want to know how you feel, I want to know you and through you, me.

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 123

Sitting here I knew I was experiencing the mitigated bliss of those who are too superstitious to claim they may get all they've ever dreamed of but are far too grateful not to know it could easily be taken away. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 117

It was in every word she'd spoken to me that night--untrammeled, frank, human--and in the way her hips responded to mine now, without inhibition, without exaggeration, as though the connection between lips and hips in her body was fluid and instantaneous. A kiss on the mouth was not a prelude to a more comprehensive contact, it was already contact in its totality.  

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 115

"Do you really like to read that much?" she asked as we ambled our way casually in the dark toward the piazzetta.

I looked at her as if she'd asked me if I loved music, or bread and salted butter, or ripe fruit in the summertime.  

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 109

I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 81

Give me a blindfold, hold my hand, and don't ask me to think--will you do that for me?

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 78

There is nothing but truth between us now, and where there's truth there are no barriers, no shifty glances, and if nothing comes of this, let it never be said that either of us was unaware of what might happen. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 77

I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask my little world to let him in, so that the place where I came to be alone on summer afternoons would get to know him, judge him, see if he fitted in, take him in,so that I might come back here and remember. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 72

I was treading water, trying neither to drown nor to swim to safety, just staying in place, because here was the truth--even if I couldn't speak the truth, or even hint at it, yet I could swear it lay around us, the way we say of a necklace we've just lost while swimming: I know it's down there somewhere. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 70

This is nothing, just a minute of grace. Zwischen Immer und Nie. Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never.

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 68

Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being that someone we're longing to touch are one and the same, just opposite banks on a river that passes from us to them, back to us and over to them again. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 59

I was afraid when he showed up, afraid when he failed to, afraid when he looked at me, more frightened yet when he didn't. 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 40

Don't let him be someone els when he's away. Don't let him be someone I've never seen before. Don't let him have a life other than the life I know he has with us, with me.

Don't let me lose him.

I knew I had no hold on him, nothing to offer, nothing to lure him by.

I was nothing. Just a kid.

He simply doled out his attention when the occasion suited him. 

 

 

 

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 18

I could have denied so many things--that I longed to touch his knees and wrists when they glistened in the sun with that viscous sheen I've seen in so very few... All this I could have denied. And believed my denials.

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 18

Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you'll think it's "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 17

Anything, even the most spluttered nonsense, was preferable to silence. Silence would expose me. But what was certain to expose me even more was my struggle to overcome it in front of others.

Call Me By Your Name - Pg 14

Do with me what you want. Take me. Just ask if I want to and see answer you'll get, just don't let me say no.