Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self. — Andre Aciman Alibi Copy Share Image
Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery. — Andre Aciman Far Copy Share Image
“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it. — Andre Aciman Cannot Copy Share Image
“I respected and feared him and hated him for making me hate myself.” — André Aciman Hate Copy Share Image
“You okay?” “Fine. Fine,” I replied. Then, with an awkward smile, as if correcting his initial question: “Are you okay everywhere?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Blue: the afternoon he stepped into my room from the balcony, the day he massaged my shoulder, or when he picked up… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“Or does one accrue a deficit of malaise so large that one learns to find ways to consolidate it in one lump… — André Aciman 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 Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Or: how do you go back to sleep no longer a virgin? There was no coming back from that!” — André Aciman Sleep Copy Share Image
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were… — André Aciman Far apart Copy Share Image
“The secret was out of my body. So what if he saw. So what if he caught me. So what, so what,… — André Aciman Body 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
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Away Copy Share Image
“I wished we hadn’t slept together. Even his body left me indifferent. On the rock where we sat now I looked at… — André Aciman Indifferent Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just… — Andre Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Just as he probably didn’t care or notice each time my eyes wandered along his bathing suit and tried to make out… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“He was okay with himself, the way he was okay with his body, with his looks, with his antic backhand, with his… — André Aciman Mind Copy Share Image
“I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word, I liked you from day one, and… — André Aciman Communication Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed.… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Like every experience that marks us for a lifetime, I found myself turned inside out, drawn and quartered. this was the sum… — André Aciman Family and friends Copy Share Image
“we’ll speak about two young men who found much happiness for a few weeks and lived the remainder of their lives dipping… — André Aciman False Copy Share Image
“To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touched a… — André Aciman Gay Copy Share Image
“If he didn’t touch me, then I’d be the one to touch him, and if he didn’t respond, I’d let my mouth… — André Aciman David Copy Share Image
“Do you really like to read that much?” she asked as we ambled our way casually in the dark toward the piazzetta.… — André Aciman Music Copy Share Image
“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a… — André Aciman Fear Copy Share Image
“If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when… — André Aciman Call me Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a married chatelaine who, after sleeping with a young vassal one night, had him seized by the palace… — André Aciman Executed 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
“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?” — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.” — André Aciman Disarmed Copy Share Image
