“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Music making Copy Share Image
“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.” — André Aciman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.” — André Aciman Father 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
“Jewish?" "Moslem?" I replied. "Just like a Jew: always answers with a question." "Just like a Moslem: always answers the wrong question.” — André Aciman Judaism Copy Share Image
“I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all… — André Aciman Psychology Copy Share Image
“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.” — André Aciman Far apart 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 Shame Copy Share Image
Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades… — Andre Aciman Father Copy Share Image
With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when… — Andre Aciman Belong Copy Share Image
“I want to know your body, I want to know how you feel, I want to know you, and through you, me.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens between us, Elio, I just want you to know. Don’t ever say you didn’t know.” He was still chewing. In… — André Aciman Whatever happens Copy Share Image
“Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure I want to go ahead with this, but I need to know, and better with you than anyone else.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my crotch, to my complete dismay I saw it was damp. Had he seen it? Surely he must… — André Aciman 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
“I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in… — André Aciman Book Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Hidden Copy Share Image
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to… — André Aciman Life Copy Share
“I wanted to tell him that the pool, the garden, the house, the tennis court, the orle of paradise, the whole place,… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I don't always think I'm a good person. But telling people this only makes them want to prove me wrong, and the… — André Aciman Good person Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via . Dante… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
“But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all. You see someone, but you don’t… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the physical and the metaphorical meanings are clumsy ways of understanding what happens when two beings need, not just to be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
