“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
“This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.” — André Aciman Bread crumbs Copy Share Image
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied. — Andre Aciman Difficult Copy Share Image
'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life. — Andre Aciman Afternoon Copy Share Image
“Luckily I’d asked him again to give me Billowy that morning, after I’d made sure he wore it all through our stay… — André Aciman Wore 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
There is always going to be a risk in a new love, a difficulty to be overcome, and more so considering all… — André Aciman Challenges Copy Share Image
“Oh, I knew that other hand so well. May it never let go of me tonight. I worship every finger on that… — André Aciman Fingers Dear Copy Share Image
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up. 'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added,… — André Aciman Allusion 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
“We got into the car. It was my first time. The car was spotless and I liked its smell, the smell of… — André Aciman Bad feelings Copy Share Image
“I look back on those days and regret none of it, not the risks, not the shame, not the total lack of… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“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… — André Aciman Parallel lives Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Cities-spaces-places Copy Share Image
“Outside, the night was settling fast. I liked the peace and the silence of the countryside, with its fading alpenglow and darkling… — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“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… — André Aciman Alone Copy Share Image
