“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
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you.” — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to dream of others.” — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“In a few days he'd be gone. If only he'd be back exactly a year from now.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Any moment now we were going to say goodbye. Suddenly part of my life was going to be taken away from me… — André Aciman Goodbye Copy Share Image
“My father laughed it off, saying I was too old not to accept people as they were.” — André Aciman Humor Copy Share Image
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps. — Andre Aciman Building Copy Share Image
“I liked how our minds seemed to travel in parallel, how we instantly inferred what words the other was toying with but… — André Aciman Liked Copy Share Image
“That steely look of yours, Oliver, I’d rather die than face it once I’ve told you.” — André Aciman Dying Copy Share Image
“Try again later meant, I haven’t the courage now. Things weren’t ready just yet. Where I’d find the will and the courage… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“None of our summer guests had ever been as freewheeling. But everyone loved him for it, the way everyone grew to love… — André Aciman Grew Love Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that was supposed to mean Absolutely, when I let my tongue loose: “Do I like you, Oliver? I worship you.” There,… — André Aciman Said Copy Share Image
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not… — André Aciman Aciman Copy Share Image
“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“I’d had him inside me barely a few hours ago and that later he had come all over my chest, because he… — André Aciman Thrilled Copy Share Image
“...you and I , when the night is spread out against the sky, and read stories of restless people who always end… — André Aciman Hate being alone Copy Share Image
“What does this say about the life you've lived, then?' 'Part of it— just part of it —was a coma, but I… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“That was the poet’s lesson, I presume. In a month or so from now, when I’d revisit Rome, being here tonight with… — André Aciman Poetry Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me. You see me. But you don't see me. Everyone else sees me. And yet no one has… — André Aciman Fear Copy Share Image
“But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone… — André Aciman Walked Home Copy Share Image
“And yes, there was such a luster in his eyes that I had to look away, and when I looked back at… — André Aciman Gaze 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 Coming home Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I'd lost track of and sloughed off… — Andre Aciman Green card Copy Share Image
“To me those hours spent at that round wooden table in our garden with the large umbrella imperfectly shading my papers, the… — André Aciman Time Copy Share Image
“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game… — André Aciman Diplomat Copy Share Image
“I brought the bathing suit to my face, then rubbed my face inside of it, as if I were trying to snuggle… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“All these years, whenever I thought of him, I'd think either of B. or of our last days in Rome, the whole… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.” — André Aciman Disarmed Copy Share Image
“...in my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.” — André Aciman Greatness Copy Share Image
“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Instrument Copy Share Image
