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“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay, on anything from the smell of rosemary on hot days to the frantic rattle of the cicadas in the afternoon—smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.”
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― Call Me by Your Name
“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him '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.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he'd step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I'd been rehearsing for days now, Please, don't hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.”
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― Call Me by Your Name
Ieva’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ieva’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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155 friends
254 books
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154 friends
464 books
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102 friends
120 books
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153 friends
56 books
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124 friends
348 books
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89 books
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89 friends
90 books
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103 friends
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