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But I took those books and did a little studying of my own. I memorized what pages she’d dog-eared, or highlighted, which ones had the distinct oil from her fingertips being on them more frequently than others.


“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name

“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though perhaps this was what I had wanted all along. To wait forever. ”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name

“Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. 'I would not offend you' his eyes seemed every time to be saying, 'but I want to save myself, and I don't know how.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“I don't want to be weak, and I don't want to be sorry. I want to be the best.”
― Son of the Dawn
― Son of the Dawn

“He longed sometimes with an almost physical ache just to say 'My Husband' and have it be true.”
― Ghosts of the Shadow Market
― Ghosts of the Shadow Market
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