“for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.” — André Aciman Eighties Copy Share Image
“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.” — André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Copy Share Image
“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.” — André Aciman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Just because someone says he'll see you at midnight doesn't mean you're automatically bound to hug him when you've barely shaken hands… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Here was someone who lacked for nothing. I couldn’t understand this feeling. I envied him.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Leaning out into the evening air, I knew that this might never be given to us again, and yet I couldn't bring… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had all along, without seeming to, without even admitting it, already been trying—and failing—to win him over.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most. — Andre Aciman Being Copy Share Image
“lemonade, suntan lotion, books, espadrilles, sunglasses, colored pens, and music, which he listened to with headphones, so that it was impossible to… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we… — Andre Aciman History Copy Share Image
“He stood still, dropped his hand with the bundle of unsent letters still in it, and simply stood there staring at me,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But there was something at once chilling and off-putting in the sudden distance that crept between us in the most unexpected moments.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He was my secret conduit to myself—like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious… — André Aciman Superstitious Copy Share Image
“I liked his bookstore manner. He was curious but not entirely focused, interested yet nonchalant, veering between a Look what I've found… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Oliver: Do you have any idea how glad I am that we slept together? Elio:I don't know. Oliver: It would be just… — André Aciman Regret 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 Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Andre-aciman 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 Copy Share Image
“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how… — André Aciman Language Copy Share Image
“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“But Later! was also a way of avoiding saying goodbye, of making light of all goodbyes. You said Later! not to mean… — André Aciman Goodbye Copy Share Image
“But I also knew that I was circling wagons around my life with try again later s, and that months, seasons, entire… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self. — Andre Aciman Alibi Copy Share Image
“I knew exactly what this spelled. Autumn was just around the corner.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery. — Andre Aciman Chaste Copy Share Image
“How very true, I thought. Oliver, I wish that you and I and all those we’ve held dear might live forever in… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“What did I tell you?" Kalaj turned to me without even looking at the owner. "Everyone shuts their door in the end.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that I couldn’t allow myself to hope I’d ever see him wearing no bathing suit at all.” — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
