𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞
𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐤, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦 

𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳

𝘑𝘢𝘯-𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦
𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘴 
𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 
𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵 
𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 
𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘺 
𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡


"Is it 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑒?"

"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!"- Andre Aciman

"We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only."- Andre Aciman

"Come, I'll take you to San Giacomo before you change your mind," I finally said. "There is still time before lunch. Remember the way?"
"I remember the way."
"You remember the way," I echoed.
He looked at me and smiled. It cheered me. Perhaps because I knew he was taunting me.
Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.
"I'm like you," he said. "I remember everything."
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in a jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look at me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name." - Andre Aciman