“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on… — André Aciman Memories Copy Share Image
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not… — André Aciman Aciman Copy Share Image
“I already told you, I’m okay.” “Did I tell you I was okay too?” “Yes.” He smiled. I looked away, because he… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We… — André Aciman Bumps in the road Copy Share Image
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss. — Andre Aciman Beauty Copy Share Image
“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.” — André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Copy Share Image
“What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for… — André Aciman Grief Copy Share Image
“Any moment now we were going to say goodbye. Suddenly part of my life was going to be taken away from me… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns… — André Aciman Enough Copy Share Image
“I put his pillow over my face, kissed it savagely, and, wrapping my legs around it, told it what I lacked the… — André Aciman Courage 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
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as… — Andre Aciman Behind Copy Share Image
“Elio: You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, becaue only then will this thing I… — André Aciman Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“As I watched my own reflection on the glass panels of the Green Line car heading out to Newton that evening, I… — Andre Aciman Masks Copy Share Image
“What if my body—just my body, my heart—cried out for his? What to do then? What if at night I wouldn't be… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“My father laughed it off, saying I was too old not to accept people as they were.” — André Aciman Parenting 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
“Because everyone liked him, I had to say I liked him too. I was like men who openly declare other men irresistibly… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“None of our summer guests had ever been as freewheeling. But everyone loved him for it, the way everyone grew to love… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because… — André Aciman Admire Copy Share Image
“But you’re doing it now—in a way.” “Yes, in a way—that’s how I always say things: in a way.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Here was someone who lacked for nothing. I couldn’t understand this feeling. I envied him.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“How very true, I thought. Oliver, I wish that you and I and all those we’ve held dear might live forever in… — André Aciman Live forever Copy Share Image
