“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
“I can, from the distance of years now, still think I’m hearing the voices of two young men singing these words in… — André Aciman Last night Copy Share Image
“He was my secret conduit to myself—like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer,… — André Aciman Soulmate Copy Share Image
“How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of… — André Aciman First time Copy Share Image
“Next to it on the wall was a framed postcard of Monet's berm. I recognized it immediately. 'It used to be mine,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had known it would hurt. What I hadn’t expected was that the hurt would find itself coiled and twisted into sudden… — André Aciman Hurt Copy Share Image
“Occasionally you'll say "Excuse me" when I happen to stand in your way, and "Thank you" when your ball drifts into my… — André Aciman Excuse Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“We make assumptions about how our lives are being charted without knowing that we’re even making these assumptions—which is the beauty of… — André Aciman Beauty Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have any time left, because he brought his lips to my mouth, a warm, conciliatory, I’ll-meet-you-halfway-but-no-further kiss till he realized… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
