“expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“All I really wanted was one night with him, just one night—one hour, even—if only to determine whether I wanted him for… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the very least I wanted was for him to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me, that I was… — André Aciman Dignity Copy Share Image
“Just as he probably didn’t care or notice each time my eyes wandered along his bathing suit and tried to make out… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the physical and the metaphorical meanings are clumsy ways of understanding what happens when two beings need, not just to be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just… — Andre Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“I could tell he was tasting it at that very instant. Something that was mine was in his mouth, more his than… — André Aciman Time Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I… — André Aciman Alone Copy Share Image
“As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“If I liked listening to him, it was not because I believed or even respected the stuff he mouthed off every day… — André Aciman Clash of civilizations Copy Share Image
“Outside, the night was settling fast. I liked the peace and the silence of the countryside, with its fading alpenglow and darkling… — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Why did I do it?" I finally asked him. "Because you couldn't stand it, because you were choking, that's why. Perfectly understandable."… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I needed him as far away as possible if I was to feel better and forget—but I needed him close by in… — André Aciman Pay the price Copy Share Image
“Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I sensed that he was staring at me as I was explaining Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, which I’d been transcribing.… — André Aciman Last words Copy Share Image
“In his heart of hearts, I am sure, he couldn't wait to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I asked him what did… — Andre Aciman Pledge Copy Share Image
Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays… — Andre Aciman Barcelona Copy Share Image
“Oh, I knew that other hand so well. May it never let go of me tonight. I worship every finger on that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
There is always going to be a risk in a new love, a difficulty to be overcome, and more so considering all… — André Aciman Challenges Copy Share Image
“I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word, I liked you from day one, and… — André Aciman Communication Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed.… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I… — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“He was okay with himself, the way he was okay with his body, with his looks, with his antic backhand, with his… — André Aciman Mind Copy Share Image
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up. 'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added,… — André Aciman Allusion Copy Share Image
“I know desire when I see it—and yet, this time, it slipped by completely. I was going for the devious smile that… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next… — André Aciman Next time Copy Share Image
“What if my body—just my body, my heart—cried out for his? What to do then? What if at night I wouldn't be… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Or, when I wasn't practicing the guitar and he wasn't listening to his headphones, still with his straw hat flat on his… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“But that moment of what seemed like bliss now when we'd walked our bikes on the piazzetta both before and after our… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“It was not him I hated—but the thing we’d done. I didn’t want him looking into my heart just yet. Instead, I… — André Aciman Feeling sick Copy Share Image
“And why wouldn't I show him how like butter I was? Because I was afraid of what might happen then? Or was… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Before long, my mother's friend, who, at the last minute, decided to stay for dinner, was asked to sit where I'd sat… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“He kissed me on the mouth, but it wasn't the kiss after the Pasquino, when he'd pressed me hard against the wall… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“As I watched my own reflection on the glass panels of the Green Line car heading out to Newton that evening, I… — Andre Aciman Masks Copy Share Image
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
