The best Quotes from Call Me By Your Name

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.

Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you’ll think it’s "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?

How you live your life is your business, just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out.

When you least expect it, nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief - or do they hound you 'til the bitter end?

Oliver: "Can I kiss you?"
Elio: "Yes, please."

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.

Oliver: "Well, you seem to know more than anyone else around here."
Elio: "Well, if you only knew how little I really know about the things that matter."

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.

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

To make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste.

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Tyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Will Traynor: "Will you stay?"
Lou Clark: "For as long as you want me to."

I just wanna be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress.

There's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived your life at all.

I've felt loved, and that's all that matters. So, never mind favorites. You're allowed to have one. The point is, you've been mine.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

I don't have much time. I don't mean literally, I mean you're out buying ice cream and you'll be home soon. But I have a feeling this is the last letter, because there is only one thing left to tell you. It isn't to go down memory lane or make you buy a lamp, you can take care of yourself without any help from me. It's to tell you how much you move me, how you changed me. You made me a man, by loving me Holly. And for that, I am eternally grateful... literally. If you can promise me anything, promise me that whenever you're sad, or unsure, or you lose complete faith, that you'll try to see yourself through my eyes. Thank you for the honor of being my wife. I'm a man with no regrets. How lucky am I. You made my life, Holly. But I'm just one chapter in yours. There'll be more. I promise. So here it comes, the big one. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Watch out for that signal, when life as you know it ends. P.S. I will always love you.

I have loved her even when I hated her... only married couples'll understand that one.

Liz: "Hot guy from the bar who hit on you is here."
Hannah: "Liz, I'm studying."
Liz: "You should be studying the ceiling of his bedroom!"

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Jazz is conflict and it's compromise, and it's new every time. It's brand new every night. It's very, very exciting. And it's dying. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, "Let it die. It had its time." Well, not on my watch!

I think it's the ending of a relationship, that's what makes a love story so memorable.

I can't believe he's gone. It's like I close my eyes and I see us meeting for the first time. And I remember every word that he said to me. I remember every expression on his face. And then I open my eyes and it's like... Did I, like, just dream our entire relationship up? Did I dream him up?

Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!

Thomas J.: "Vada?"
Vada: "Yeah?"
Thomas J.: "Would you think of me?"
Vada: "For what?"
Thomas J.: "Well, if you don't get to marry Mr. Bixler."
Vada: "I guess."

Here's looking at you, kid.

Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.

After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Anna: "You know what they say about men with big feet."
William: "No, I don't, actually. What's that?"
Anna: "Big feet... large shoes."

"Time heals all wounds."
"But every wound leaves a scar."

Most people have all the time in the world. They'll live to be eighty or older. But they don't use the time they have. They waste it on the couch, in front of the TV, or at the computer. They don't have time for the things that make life really worth living: other people, their friends and family, the friendship of a dog, the beauty of nature… They've lost all mindfulness.

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

This whole time I've been living for my treatments, instead of doing my treatments so that I can live. I wanna live!

True love lasts a lifetime.

I'll be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.