Book

Call Me by Your Name

: A Novel

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay

(14 total)

Characters

André Aciman (14)

“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Finding True Love, Once In A Lifetime Love, Finding The Stars In Another Human Being

“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.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Longing, Desire, To Desire Someone, To Desire Being Desired

“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong…”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Is A Series Of Choices, Making Choices In Life, Making The Wrong Choices, Choices That Change Our Lives

“I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Never Wanting To Be Away From Someone, Pure Love, Extreme Love

“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimate Moments, Pure Intimacy, Pure Connection

“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Survive, How To Deal With Pain, Feeling your feelings, It Is Okay To Feel Things Deeply

“If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: To Live In A Dream, Living In Love, Falling In Love With A Dream

“The whole thing had a mysteriously surreal quality kept intentionally opaque by both of us—not because we wanted to allow events to catch us unprepared so that we might blame circumstances and not ourselves, but because by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they mi…”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: The Last Few Feelings Before A Goodbye, Pretending That Time Is Going To Stop

“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: When You're In Love Time Slips Away, How It Feels To Be In Love, When You're Missing The One You Love, Deep Connection

“I pointed upstairs to the French windows of his room. Your eyes are forever there, I wanted to say, trapped in the sheer curtains, staring out from my bedroom upstairs where no one sleeps these days.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: The Ways In Which You Remember The One You Love, Love Takes Up Space Long After It Has Left, Old Love Is Like A Ghost

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Lovers, Falling In Love With A Friend, Falling In Love

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Wasting Love, Rushing Healing, To Feel Nothing Is To Die

“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death

“Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is mockup and the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s the only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one l…”

— André Aciman, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death, Love, Duality