“But you’re doing it now—in a way.” “Yes, in a way—that’s how I always say things: in a way.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“...he, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul.” — André Aciman Soul Copy Share Image
“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.” — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“True,” said someone, “your ‘invigoration’ works only on those who no longer have it.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Hesitantly, I crawled onto the bed and sat facing him, cross-legged like him, as though this were the accepted protocol among men… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Do you want me man or woman? she/he asked, as if one could scale one’s way back up our phylogenetic tree.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“Watching him wearing my clothes was an unbearable turn-on. And he knew it. It was turning both of us on. The thought… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Let’s go now.” He extended his hand to help me get up. I grabbed it and, turning on my side facing the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens between us, Elio, I just want you to know. Don’t ever say you didn’t know.” He was still chewing. In… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure I want to go ahead with this, but I need to know, and better with you than anyone else.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my crotch, to my complete dismay I saw it was damp. Had he seen it? Surely he must… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I knew there’d be no coming back from this. When it happened, it happened not as I’d dreamed it would, but with… — André Aciman Reluctance Copy Share Image
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell him that the pool, the garden, the house, the tennis court, the orle of paradise, the whole place,… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“I don't always think I'm a good person. But telling people this only makes them want to prove me wrong, and the… — André Aciman Good person Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — 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? Or… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all. You see someone, but you don’t… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via . Dante… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are. — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I could speak about the Haydn for hours—what a lovely friendship this might have been.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes… — André Aciman Shame Copy Share Image
“We were, it finally dawned on me, the two shyest persons in the world. My father was the only one who had… — André Aciman Parenting Copy Share Image
“Kiss me now, before it’s totally gone,” I said. His mouth would taste of peaches and me.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I knew that he was filled with grief when he finally kissed me one last time in one of the bathroom stalls… — André Aciman Grief Copy Share Image
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“ I don't care to remember —like I know myself —hinted at a realm of human experience only others had access to,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I knew I was making you uncomfortable, but I just had to make sure.” “So you knew all this time?” “Let’s say… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“How I wished I had shoulders like his. Maybe I wouldn’t long for them if I had them?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
