--- title: "4 Italy Quotes By Andre Aciman" description: "4 Italy quotes by Andre Aciman. Plus more from Andre Aciman and more Italy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/andre-aciman-459_coming-of-age_if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-gi_1127966.png" --- > [“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-giving-him-every-chance-to-put/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/andre-aciman-459_coming-of-age_if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-gi_1127966.png) > [“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in-the-afternoon-in-these-sunlit/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/andre-aciman-459_afternoon_who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in_1674073.png) > [“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/we-rip-out-so-much-of-ourselves-to-be-cured-of-things-faster-than-we/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/andre-aciman-459_aciman_we-rip-out-so-much-of-ourselves-to-be-cu_1722328.png) > [“for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/for-you-in-silence-somewhere-in-italy-in-the-mid-eighties/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/andre-aciman-459_eighties_for-you-in-silence-somewhere-in-italy-in_3020670.png) ## Other authors on Italy - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-matteo-salvini-4384.jpg) Matteo Salvini 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/matteo-salvini/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-lapo-elkann-58538.jpg) Lapo Elkann 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/lapo-elkann/) - [Stefania Mattana 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/stefania-mattana/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-avery-brundage-15813.jpg) Mario Monti 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/mario-monti/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-gino-d-acampo-5671.jpg) Gino D'Acampo 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/gino-d-acampo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-frances-mayes-35358.jpg) Frances Mayes 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/frances-mayes/) - [Beppe Grillo 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/beppe-grillo/) - [Paolo Gentiloni 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/paolo-gentiloni/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-matteo-renzi-65513.jpg) Matteo Renzi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/matteo-renzi/) - [Jean F. Blashfield 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/jean-f-blashfield/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-e-m-forster-2-1148.jpg) E.M. Forster 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/e-m-forster-2/) - [Marilyn Tolhurst 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/marilyn-tolhurst/) ## More by Andre Aciman > [Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/don-t-all-writers-have-a-hidden-nerve-call-it-a-secret-chamber/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-wanted-him-to-remember-the-morning-on-monet-s-berm-when-i-d-kissed/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/rituals-are-how-we-step-into-our-private-field-of-dreams-a-small/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-desperately-wanted-to-give-him-something-by-contrast-taking-seemed/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/the-man-who-ll-lay-the-last-stone-here-isn-t-even-born-yet/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/proust-is-interested-in-minutiae-because-life-as-he-sees-it-is-seldom/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/well-since-you-re-not-going-to-do-anything-with-me-can-you-at-least/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/this-is-heaven-and-i-wouldn-t-hear-him-say-another-word-for-at-least/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/he-loved-the-sticky-taste-what-had-i-done-i-told-him-and-pointed-to/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/when-had-they-separated-us-you-and-me-oliver-and-why-did-i-know-it/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/as-we-were-swimming-back-he-asked-as-though-it-were-an-afterthought/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/to-be-with-you-to-be-with-you-oliver-with-or-without-my-bathing-suit/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-thought-i-could-ever-want-another-living-soul-gently-softly-and/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“Oliver: But there's the catch: you're still twenty years younger than those gathered around you, which is why I can be twenty-four in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/oliver-but-there-s-the-catch-you-re-still-twenty-years-younger-than/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-cannot-write-if-there-is-a-sense-of-plenitude-i-have-to-hypothesize/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/italy/andre-aciman/#itemlist", "name": "4 Italy Quotes By Andre Aciman", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andre Aciman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-giving-him-every-chance-to-put/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/andre-aciman-459_coming-of-age_if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-gi_1127966.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/andre-aciman-459_coming-of-age_if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-gi_1127966.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/andre-aciman-459_coming-of-age_if-he-knew-if-he-only-knew-that-i-was-gi_1127966.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with…” — André Aciman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andre Aciman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in-the-afternoon-in-these-sunlit/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/andre-aciman-459_afternoon_who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in_1674073.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/andre-aciman-459_afternoon_who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in_1674073.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/andre-aciman-459_afternoon_who-can-resist-sleep-at-two-or-three-in_1674073.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?” — André Aciman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. 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