“we were eloping together with return-trip tickets to separate destinations.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?” — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.” — André Aciman Freedom of speech Copy Share Image
“We were—and he must have recognized the signs long before I did—flirting.” — André Aciman Flirting Copy Share Image
“You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We were alone together for three days, we knew no one in the city, I could be anyone, say anything, do anything.” — André Aciman City Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“It was the porousness, the fungibility, of our bodies—what was mine was suddenly his, just as what belonged to him could be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come… — André Aciman Coming of age Copy Share Image
“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.” — André Aciman Morning Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Book Copy Share Image
“For the day will come soon enough when I’ll look up and you’ll no longer be there.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d hold you and kiss you if I could.” “Me too.” I came up to his ear as he was just about… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“That was the poet’s lesson, I presume. In a month or so from now, when I’d revisit Rome, being here tonight with… — André Aciman Poetry Copy Share Image
“What does this say about the life you've lived, then?' 'Part of it— just part of it —was a coma, but I… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“...you and I , when the night is spread out against the sky, and read stories of restless people who always end… — André Aciman Hate being alone Copy Share Image
“He would never know, just as the people we buy the newspaper from and then fantasize about all night have no idea… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me. You see me. But you don't see me. Everyone else sees me. And yet no one has… — André Aciman Fear Copy Share Image
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?' 'Ye-es.' Now that I had spilled the beans I could take on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“With open arms, caro. Jokes were being bandied back and forth. You know our tradition, explained my mother, you must always come… — André Aciman Open arms Copy Share Image
“In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I couldn't understand how boldness and sorrow, how you're so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly… — André Aciman Adolescence Copy Share Image
“I brought the bathing suit to my face, then rubbed my face inside of it, as if I were trying to snuggle… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“All these years, whenever I thought of him, I'd think either of B. or of our last days in Rome, the whole… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“The better a writer, the better he erases his footprints- yet the better the writer, the more he wants us to intuit… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have any time left, because he brought his lips to my mouth, a warm, conciliatory, I’ll-meet-you-halfway-but-no-further kiss till he realized… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d cast a glance and then look away—look away because I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours? — Andre Aciman Escape Copy Share Image
“I respected and feared him and hated him for making me hate myself.” — André Aciman Hate Copy Share Image
“Elio: Are you sory I came? Oliver: I'd holt you and kiss you if I could.” — André Aciman Kiss Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the senses all humans speak the same beastly tongue” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
