“Cor cordium, heart of hearts, I’ve never said anything truer in my life to anyone.” — André Aciman Heart Copy Share Image
“Soon she'd spot the bruise behind the inflection. I blamed her for not seeing the bruise so I wouldn't be blamed for… — André Aciman Guilt Copy Share Image
“Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno.” — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Not if you don’t want to.” I knew exactly what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to go over the moment… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Of course it had moved me, but it had flattered me as well, as though his gesture had said, I believe with… — André Aciman Die Inside Copy Share Image
“How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that if one word from him could make me so happy, another could just as easily crush… — André Aciman Crush Copy Share Image
“I had known it would hurt. What I hadn’t expected was that the hurt would find itself coiled and twisted into sudden… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I want you as intermezzo. So I said, I want you as both, or as in between. “He seemed taken aback. “Naughty,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Are you going to be okay?' 'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“He remembered and instantly moaned his own name three times, as we’d done during that night. I could feel myself already getting… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things:… — André Aciman Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for… — André Aciman Grief Copy Share Image
Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We… — André Aciman Bumps in the road Copy Share Image
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“Oliver: I knew I was making you uncomfortable, but I just had to make sure. Elio: So you knew all this time?… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that I was hoping we'd go together.' 'You mean like the other day?' he added, as though to help… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had worshipped them all once. I had touched them the way a civet rubs itself on the objects it covets. They’d… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“As I sat there working on transcriptions at my round table in the morning, what I would have settled for was not… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder what turn my life would have taken had someone else shown up instead. I wouldn’t have gone to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“I looked at him: I want one more kiss. I should, could, have seized him. By the next morning, things became officially… — 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?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal… — André Aciman Fire Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was find the source of happiness in me and not rely on others to supply it the… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“That day belongs to a different time warp. We should learn to leave sleeping dogs—” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.” — André Aciman Envy Copy Share Image
“I was happy, and this was all that mattered, with others, without others, I was happy.” — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“My father would never object. He might make a face at first, then take it back.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But seeing everyone take such a liking to him, I found a strange, small oasis of peace.” — André Aciman Peace Copy Share Image
