Quotes from Call me by your name

We had the kind of friendship that’s so close, people might mistake it for love.

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.

Is it better to speak or die?

The only person I’d run through an airport for is you.

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.

If there is a place that exists where one can breathe normally, and still be with you, tell me.

I thought about kissing him. Owning him. I thought about wanting to be consumed by him.

How you live your life is your business. Just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once.

To feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

What might have been had nothing happened?

How can you tell if you’re really a grandmother? You get lost all the time.

He came and went, like waves.

You remember things like you can hear the wind or the rain, right? You remember things that matter.

I loved him when we were in Egypt.

I’m like a disciple… of the suffering Christ.

Are you ready? You’re not going to be one of those things that live to regret?

I love Italy. The hot, hot, hot sun. The palm trees. I could live here forever.

You’re wasting your time if you think there’s a mission to convert me.

Quotes from Call me by your name part 2

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps in the end, it is because of time that within us, we find that feeling towards those who were close to us and whom they no longer exist.

Oliver and I would live in what seems to him traditional, bourgeois marriage life.

You think you know how things will work out, but you don’t.

There’s no hiding from love.

The things you touch have no permanence.

You are the only person who has ever heard me, understood me.

Love is a losing game, play like you’ve already won.

He was weak in the knees. Shy.

You have no idea how glad I am to see you.

We will never know who or what we are, until we realize who and what we should have been.

That’s the worst kind. The one that you can only have after you gave it up.

Our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once.

I don’t know how to talk about pictures. But to put you in their place, I mean to call your name.

I liked the space, the light, the colors.

You know what? Maybe I am changing.

There is a critical moment in every relationship: the moment you decide.

Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine.

In this place where everything is mired in the memory of love, time also moves slowly.

Dead time, waiting time, something lights up in me when I find myself in those hours.

The creature is driven by instincts and nothing else.

We move too quickly. We see things but snap pictures instead of pausing and really looking, then the scene or the person, even memories, become unreal.

I have loved you, I’ve worshipped you, for the longest time.

You two had a nice friendship.

It would be nice if we could heal each other.

Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.

I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.

Whatever happens, I won’t let you down.