“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment.” — André Aciman Aftertaste 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 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 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
“It never occurred to me that I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life,… — Andre Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“Something unexpected seemed to clear away between us, and, for a second, it seemed there was absolutely no difference in age between… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful… — Andre Aciman Israel Copy Share Image
“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal… — André Aciman Age Copy Share Image
“Today, the pain, the stoking, the thrill of someone new, the promise of so much bliss hovering a fingertip away, the fumbling… — André Aciman Adventure Copy Share Image
“From this moment on, I thought, from this moment on—I had, as I’d never before in my life, the distinct feeling of… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“Kalaj was in top form. "If I had a car I'd drive you home right this instant." "I'll take him if he… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not he, who blurted out, not once,… — André Aciman Dreams 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
“I could never think of him in New England. When I lived in New England for a while and was separated from… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, sudden soreness triggered a twinge of discomfort and shame. Whoever said the soul and the body met… — André Aciman Pineal gland Copy Share Image
“I'd heard him tell a woman who complained he never helped her achieve orgasm, that she should treasure the memory of her… — André Aciman French revolution Copy Share Image
There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“I began, reluctantly, to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future. This, I knew,… — André Aciman Sunny afternoon Copy Share Image
“Looking at him now from the balustrade, I felt something so tender for him that it reminded me how eagerly I had… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Did he ignore me the way I ignored him that morning: on purpose, to draw me out, to protect himself, to show… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Finally his voice came through. 'Elio,' he said. I could hear my parents and the voices of children in the background. No… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Then came the giggle, this time for real, as if she had committed a naughty prank but was not in the least… — 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
“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Or does the presence of the other, who yesterday morning felt almost like an intruder, become ever more necessary because it shields… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“You never did forgive me, did you?' 'Forgive? There was nothing to forgive. If anything, I'm grateful for everything. I remember good… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I liked it when our feet were aligned, left with left, and struck the ground at the same time, leaving footprints on… — André Aciman Gay-romance Copy Share Image
“Or had I come with a far more menial purpose? To find him living alone, waiting for me, craving to be taken… — 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
“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment. Later! didn’t close things neatly… — André Aciman Aftertaste Copy Share Image
“I knew they didn't suspect a thing, and it bothered me—though I wouldn't have wanted it otherwise. It told me that if… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know what I was afraid of, nor why I worried so much, nor why this thing that could so easily… — André Aciman Anxiety Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be with you all,' I responded, getting all worked up myself over someone I had almost entirely stopped… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“When every Jew and every Arab will have killed each other, there'll still be one Arab and one Jew left and they'll… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
