"Call me by your name", por André Aciman (2007)

Acima de tudo, para mim ficou claro que esta não é uma história de amor, nem sobre a autodescoberta das várias formas de amar. É algo mais profundo do que isso, vai mais longe, supera todas as fronteiras que, no amor, quase sempre se erguem. Este é um livro sobre a intimidade máxima: o ser-se o outro, o ter-se no outro.
"This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know —
coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize
that for seventeen years all you'd been doing was fiddling with the
wrong combination."
"Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing more I want. You make me like who I am, who I become when you’re with me, Oliver. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome."
"(...) it would finally dawn on us both that he was more me than I had ever been myself, because when he became me and I became him in bed so many years ago, he was and would forever remain, long after every forked road in life had done its work, my brother, my friend, my father, my son, my husband, my lover, myself."
"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."
Que coisa mais linda.
Sem dúvida, terei de dar uma vista de olhos, no mínimo, ao filme! Ao livro, logo se verá! Mas tenho visto muitas opiniões positivas quanto ao mesmo :)
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