“To live with yourself you had to cut off the hand that offended, cut, slice, peel, scrape, and tear away at yourself… — André Aciman Cut Hand Copy Share Image
“Do you know what you’re saying?” This time I looked out to the sea and, with a vague and weary tone that… — André Aciman Saying Copy Share Image
“Maybe it started soon after his arrival during one of those grinding lunches when he sat next to me and it finally… — André Aciman 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
“So what if he saw? Now he knows. What never crossed my mind was that someone else who lived under our roof,… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“But I had heeded the warning, and as is said of juries who have heard inadmissible evidence before it is stricken from… — André Aciman Borrowed time 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
“In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank,… — André Aciman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Is it your body that I want when I think of lying next to it every night or do I want to… — André Aciman Bathing suit 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
“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I been so happy. Nothing could go wrong, everything was happening my way, all the doors were… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. — Andre Aciman Craft Copy Share Image
“I want Billowy too. And the espadrilles. And the sunglasses. And you.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period. — Andre Aciman Egypt Copy Share Image
“Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.” — André Aciman Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“So I played one of the Goldberg Variations, which made me quiet and contemplative.” — André Aciman Contemplative Copy Share Image
“No one likes being alone. But I’ve learned how to live with it.” — André Aciman Learned Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman First Copy Share Image
“We were—and he must have recognized the signs long before I did—flirting.” — André Aciman Flirting Copy Share Image
“He pressed me against the wall and started to kiss me, his hips pushing into mine, his arms about to lift me… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.” — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple… — Andre Aciman Come Copy Share Image
“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.” — André Aciman Morning Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Book Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“If not later, when?” My father liked it. “If not later, when?” It echoed Rabbi Hillel’s famous injunction, “If not now, when?” — André Aciman Later Copy Share Image
“Anchise, all of them trying to teach him a Neapolitan song. It was not only the national hymn of their southern youth,… — André Aciman Song Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his eyes unless I’d been invited to—and I never waited long… — André Aciman Didn Want Copy Share Image
“He would never know, just as the people we buy the newspaper from and then fantasize about all night have no idea… — André Aciman Fantasize Copy Share Image
