“What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
“I wanted no secrets, no screens, nothing between us. Little did I know that if I relished the gust of candor that… — André Aciman Honesty Copy Share Image
“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game… — André Aciman Longing Copy Share Image
“Only then, by a ricochet mechanism that totally surprised me, did it hit me. Had Oliver been doing the same with me?… — André Aciman Ricochet Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that what had totally panicked me when he touched me was exactly what startles virgins on being… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I was so spellbound that I wrenched myself free from his touch, because a moment longer and I would have slackened like… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He is right, there is no denying it,' said my father under his breath, as though mimicking the part of a cowered… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I wish I hadn’t spoken,” I finally said. I knew as soon as I’d said it that I’d broken the exiguous spell… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once,… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“I was treading water, trying neither to drown nor to swim to safety, just staying in place, because here was the truth… — André Aciman Speak the truth Copy Share Image
“I wished I were like those soldiers in films who run out of bullets and toss away their guns as though they… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“The peach was soft and firm, and when I finally succeeded in tearing it apart with my cock, I saw that its… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in… — Andre Aciman Age Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Cities-spaces-places Copy Share Image
“But I was in heaven. That he hadn’t forgotten our conversation about Celan gave me a shot of tonic I hadn’t experienced… — André Aciman Communication Copy Share Image
“You’ll kill me if you stop, you’ll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it's not with me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Staring at his neck with its star and telltale amulet was like staring at something timeless, ancestral, immortal in me, in him,… — André Aciman Amulet Copy Share Image
Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live… — Andre Aciman Day Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real… — Andre Aciman Human 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 Copy Share Image
“Fire like a pleading, that says, please, please, tell me I’m wrong, because it can’t possibly be true for you as well,… — André Aciman Fire Copy Share Image
“Yes, the past is a foreign country", I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“He saw through everybody, but he saw through them precisely because the first thing he looked for in people was the very… — André Aciman Identity Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I meant—” “I know what you meant. Sore.” “But did you mind when I—?” I turned my face the other way, as… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected… — Andre Aciman Brother Copy Share Image
“What lies ahead is going to be very difficult,” he started to say, altering his voice. His tone said: We don’t have… — André Aciman Speak the truth Copy Share Image
“Besides, thinking that I’d already lost her might ease the tension between us and allow me to regain my footing and act… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“just two men kissing, and even this seemed to dissolve, as I began to feel we were not even two men, just… — André Aciman Man To Man Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wished we hadn’t slept together. Even his body left me indifferent. On the rock where we sat now I looked at… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Something bordering on nausea, something like remorse—was that it, then?—began to grip me and seemed to define itself ever more clearly the… — André Aciman Regret Copy Share Image
“Was I glad to be alone now that sleep was upon me? Yes. Well, no. Yes. But maybe not. Yes, yes, yes.… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“And yet another part of me knew that if he showed up tonight and I disliked the start of whatever was in… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit… — Andre Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing… — André Aciman Home Copy Share Image
“Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff.… — André Aciman Cliff Copy Share Image
