What you two had, had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good. You were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.
“We actually did not meet until both of us had been hired and travelled all the way to Italy. We walked into this beautiful palazzo in Italy that was Luca’s. It had beautiful wrought-iron fence and a beautiful courtyard with blooming flowers and sunshine. Then I heard this piano music wafting in and Luca said, “Come, let us speak”, and I said, “Ok!”. So we go up and there he is. He’s sitting there at the piano with this Italian composer and they’re playing, and it was like something out of a movie.”
– Armie Hammer on meeting Timothée Chalamet for the first time (x)
There are no “shoulds”. Everyone’s journey is different. Everyone takes different time to get there. You are where you are. And it’s okay. You don’t have to be here forever. You won’t be here forever. You’re learning and growing and changing everyday, even when things feel stagnant.
After the concert, Elio finds Oliver waiting at the bottom of the stairs at the Carnegie Hall stage door. Oliver says how great it is to see him and asks if Elio would let him buy him a drink (just to congratulate him on the successful concert, Oliver tells himself). If Elio doesn’t have anything else planned, of course, because he didn’t really think this through and how silly of him, of course there must be other plans, and obviously he doesn’t want to keep Elio from anything and he can just go–
Elio interrupts him mid-sentence. No other plans.
One drink turns into four, and polite conversation on each of their careers starts to give way to light flirting. Then Oliver mentions an old, stolen postcard and suddenly the mood shifts to something more serious.
