“Domestic bliss. Just because he’d let me be his top last night.” — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most” — André Aciman Hearts Copy Share Image
“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Instrument Copy Share Image
“we were eloping together with return-trip tickets to separate destinations.” — André Aciman Return Trip Copy Share Image
“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?” — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul… — André Aciman Women Met 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
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss. — Andre Aciman Beauty Copy Share Image
“I wanted it to remain, that he might actually like me, and that he liked me in just the way I liked… — André Aciman Liked 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
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough. — Andre Aciman Enough 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 Closed door 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
“How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of… — André Aciman First time 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
“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on… — André Aciman Memories Copy Share Image
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and… — André Aciman Another time Copy Share Image
“I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot… — André Aciman Martini Copy Share Image
“He was whispering, “Off, and off, and off, and off,” which made me laugh, and suddenly I was totally naked, feeling the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough… — Andre Aciman Credible 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
“We should have talked…” “Maybe,” I said. Of all the things I could have uttered that morning, this insignificant “maybe” was the… — André Aciman Money Copy Share Image
“I was happy that the room would revert to me. In my/his room, it would be easier to remember our nights. No,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I always tried to keep him within my field of vision. I never let him drift away from me except when he… — André Aciman Dreams 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
“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 Next time 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
“If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.” — André Aciman Freedom of speech Copy Share Image
