"Call Me By Your Name" Quotes

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.

How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.

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.

Is it better to speak or die?

You're too old not to accept people for who they are. It's time to see them for who they are, Elio.

What a mistake to have ever said the phrase 'I love you', when one means so many different things.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

You're too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.

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

Is it true, Elio, that you have a thing for me?