“We were not conspicuous Jews. We wore our Judaism as people do almost everywhere in the world: under the shirt, not hidden,… — André Aciman Israel Copy Share Image
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them. — Andre Aciman Patience Copy Share Image
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid. — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my… — André Aciman Ambiguities 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
“Luckily I’d asked him again to give me Billowy that morning, after I’d made sure he wore it all through our stay… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“softening the tone of my answer with a meaningfully evasive Perhaps that was supposed to mean Absolutely, when I let my tongue… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I should have learned to do what he’d have done. Shrugged my shoulders—and been okay with pre-come. But that wasn’t me. It… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t a hope left. And maybe I stared back because there wasn’t a thing to lose now. I stared back with… — André Aciman Hope Copy Share Image
“Just promise to let me keep it after you’re gone.” “That’s all?” “Well, wear it a lot today—and don’t swim in it.”… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I tried imitating him a few times. But I was too self-conscious, like someone trying to feel natural while walking about naked… — 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
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more… — André Aciman Every morning Copy Share Image
“that his hair, turning blonder every day, caught the sun before the sun was completely out in the morning; that his billowy… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Elio: What were you doing? Oliver: Thinking. Elio: About? Oliver: Things. Going back to the States. The courses I have to teach… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“A thought raced through my mind: Would my descendants know what was spoken on this very piazzetta today? Would anyone? Or would… — André Aciman Fate 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
“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
“I’m not sleeping with you. “Maybe you won’t. Maybe you will. The night is young. And I haven’t given up.” — André Aciman Night 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
“Green, which he seldom wore: acquiescent, eager to learn, eager to speak, sunny—why wasn’t he always like this?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Knock at my door at night and see if I haven’t already left it ajar for you. Walk inside. There’s always room… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed. — Andre Aciman Alexandria 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
“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
“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
“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
