MR. PERLMAN: When you least expect it, Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember: I’m here.
Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wanted to feel anything. And maybe it’s not to me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something you obviously did.
Look, you had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, or pray their sons land on their feet soon enough. But I am not such a parent.
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. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything, what a waste!
And I’ll say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what you two have. Something always held me back or stood in the way. 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’s 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, pain. Don’t kill it, and with it the joy you’ve felt.
This book and this movie touched me in a way I can't explain it. This words above resonated in my recently and like Armie said one time, if this story touch so many persons, it's cause it's related to something they lived. And that's true. This book reminds me of many personal things, I recognize myself in Elio, so much.
“But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything, what a waste! “
