“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they… — André Aciman Arrogance Copy Share Image
“Then he kissed me, and kissed me again, deeply this second time, as if he too was finally letting go. At some… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away.… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't even remember last night's anxieties. They were completely overshadowed by what followed them and seemed to belong to a… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Cor cordium, heart of hearts,” I replied, referring to the moment when a friend had seized Shelley’s heart before the flames had… — André Aciman Engulfed Copy Share Image
“I had come with truth and human kindness in my heart and that I was leaving it on his sheets now to… — André Aciman Human kindness Copy Share Image
“The story so aroused me that practically without warning the orgasm was almost upon me. I sensed I could just stop then… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe"… — André Aciman Diplomat Copy Share Image
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more… — André Aciman Every morning Copy Share Image
“A thought raced through my mind: Would my descendants know what was spoken on this very piazzetta today? Would anyone? Or would… — André Aciman Fate Copy Share Image
“Not know that I didn’t want him to let go of me? Not sense that when he started massaging me, my inability… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“But this thing that almost never was still beckons, I wanted to tell him. They can never undo it, never unwrite it,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Oliver: You never did forgive me, did you? Elio: Forgive? There was nothing to forgive. If anything, I'm grateful for everything. I… — André Aciman Family Copy Share Image
“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay,… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“The look on his face became like the tiny snapshot of a beloved that soldiers take with them to the battlefield, not… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“My father, always the most indulgent among us, but also the most observant, had figured the cauboi out. “É un timido, he’s… — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken—and I don’t think I was—that what we had between us was the total transparency that exists among friends only.… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“This felt special. Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ..." "...… — Andre Aciman Lion Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” he finally asked. “Nothing.” I didn’t know myself, but his body gradually began to reciprocate the movement, somewhat… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I think he was better than me, Papa.” “I am sure he’d say the same about you, which flatters the two of… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Is this why people say “maybe” when they mean “yes,” but hope you’ll think it’s “no” when all they really mean is,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his… — André Aciman Kindness Copy Share Image
To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom… — Andre Aciman Film Copy Share Image
“Because everyone liked him, I had to say I liked him too. I was like men who openly declare other men irresistibly… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Seeing him and thinking he'd join us for dinner tonight only to hear his peremptory Esco taught me there are certain wishes… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Oliver looked at me, meaning, Did you like it? I shrugged my shoulders, like someone reserving judgment for later. But I was… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how… — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t a hope left. And maybe I stared back because there wasn’t a thing to lose now. I stared back with… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call… — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“We stopped talking. Even when we shared the same spot in the morning, talk was at best idle and stopgap. You couldn’t… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I know you’re not sleeping, they’d say, and gently press the soft, overripe peach on my cock till I’d pierced the fruit… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“His smell reminded me of Marzia’s, and how she too always seemed to exude that brine of the seashore on those days… — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“The thud my heart gave when I saw him unannounced both terrified and thrilled me. I was afraid when he showed up,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
