Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live… — Andre Aciman Day Copy Share Image
“Yes, the past is a foreign country", I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Fire like a pleading, that says, please, please, tell me I’m wrong, because it can’t possibly be true for you as well,… — André Aciman Fire Copy Share Image
“Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes… — André Aciman Shame Copy Share Image
“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Then he kissed me, and kissed me again, deeply this second time, as if he too was finally letting go. At some… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“But that moment of what seemed like bliss now when we'd walked our bikes on the piazzetta both before and after our… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“And like the old men who sat around the piazzetta facing the Piave memorial, we’ll speak about two young men who found… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“On our way we passed a shop where my mother always ordered flowers. As a child I liked to watch the large… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Must we?” This was the closest I would ever come to saying, Stay. Just stay with me. Let your hand travel wherever… — André Aciman Saying Copy Share Image
“We stopped talking. Even when we shared the same spot in the morning, talk was at best idle and stopgap. You couldn’t… — André Aciman Stopped Copy Share Image
“His smell reminded me of Marzia’s, and how she too always seemed to exude that brine of the seashore on those days… — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how… — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“Or, when I wasn't practicing the guitar and he wasn't listening to his headphones, still with his straw hat flat on his… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“The picture would remind Oliver of the morning when I first spoke out. Or of the day when we rode by the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually… — André Aciman Ambivalence Copy Share Image
“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the… — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“As far as he was concerned, all women wanted all men. And vice versa. What stood in the way between a man… — André Aciman Doing things Copy Share Image
“And yet, about two weeks after his arrival, all I wanted every night was for him to leave his room, not via… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Marzia: People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are. Elio: Do… — André Aciman Changing your mind Copy Share Image
“Green, which he seldom wore: acquiescent, eager to learn, eager to speak, sunny—why wasn’t he always like this?” — André Aciman Green Seldom Copy Share Image
“I’m not sleeping with you. “Maybe you won’t. Maybe you will. The night is young. And I haven’t given up.” — André Aciman Night Copy Share Image
“Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing… — André Aciman Home Copy Share Image
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject… — Andre Aciman Everything Copy Share Image
Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays… — Andre Aciman Barcelona Copy Share Image
“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next… — André Aciman Next time Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in this, as with everything else, because I didn't know how to speak in code, I didn't know how to speak… — André Aciman Code Copy Share Image
Egypt wants to be young again. Israel must show it never grew old. Egypt wants to wake up and dream again. Israel… — Andre Aciman Egypt Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t a hope left. And maybe I stared back because there wasn’t a thing to lose now. I stared back with… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call… — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“There is a spot on via Santa Maria dell' Anima that I revisit every time I'm in Rome. I'll stare at it… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
“I knew exactly what phrase in the piece must have stirred him the first time, and each time I played it, I… — André Aciman First time Copy Share Image
“I was so spellbound that I wrenched myself free from his touch, because a moment longer and I would have slackened like… — André Aciman Spell Copy Share Image
“Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it's not with me… — André Aciman Feel Copy Share Image
I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit… — Andre Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“All I really wanted was one night with him, just one night—one hour, even—if only to determine whether I wanted him for… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure… — André Aciman Like love Copy Share Image
“In his heart of hearts, I am sure, he couldn't wait to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I asked him what did… — Andre Aciman Pledge Copy Share Image
