Andre-aciman Quote by André Aciman

“Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly…

— Kristen Ashley

“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day.…

— Kien Nguyen

“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world…

— Terry Pratchett

“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such…

— Roberto Bolaño

“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would…

— William Golding

“Maybe they see something in him, see something in his face, in his features. Maybe they see what I see from this disjointed, foggy…

— Tahereh Mafi

“In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he spoke he…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.”

— H.W. Brands

“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging, lines etched…

— Jodi LaPalm

“And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.”

— Catherine Lacey

“His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise and follow…

— Frederick Buechner