call me by your name

so long, farewell. 再见，珍重

raison d'être 存在的理由

cup his hands near my face 把手窝起来，为我挡风

sidetrack／divert  the conversation by saying sth else  转移话题

spill the beans 把心事／秘密全说出口

lay cards on the table 坦白／放在台面上说

kickstand 单车支架

live out the day till midnight 撑过白天等到午夜

my toes reached over to his toes

lift my face with both hands

wait another this-time-for-real ten minutes

I wondered what part I played in the overall happiness package.

We were friends first and lovers second.

When I think back to our last ten days together, I see ...

He liked me in just the way I liked him.

谈时间：I suddenly realized that we are 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.

I also loved the languor that sat upon the city, like a lover's tired, unsteady arm resting on your shoulders.

...feel like two exposed, live wires giving off sparks each time they so much as flicked each other.

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency?

extend my hand 伸出手来握手

I feel for you.

It disarmed me.

"He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good."

"I think he was better than me, Papa."

"I am sure he'd say the same about you, which flatters the two of you."

"...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."

kiss it away 用吻消除

Seeing you here is like waking from a twenty-year coma.

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"...so you are confronted with enigma.There maybe something there, maybe nothing there. Many times there is nothing there. And yet, the process of trying to unearth the mystery creates something from nothing. And those are the most powerful pieces of writing."

Andre Aciman's interview

"Writing is not a career. It is a mission. You use writing to come to answers that you will not find otherwise."

"Read classics.1. they present human beings in a very unusual way. Human beings are complex and complicated. They are filled with things that don't get together. 2. go back to the ancients. learn how they write and their style."

"Read contemporary short stories and imitate them. But you will be just like them. nothing special."