“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
“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
“And yet, out of the blue, a tender moment would erupt so suddenly between us that the words I longed to tell… — André Aciman Admittance Copy Share Image
“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.” — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“We were not conspicuous Jews. We wore our Judaism as people do almost everywhere in the world: under the shirt, not hidden,… — André Aciman Judaism Copy Share Image
“I have three things: my cab, my zeb , and my dignity. Without one, the other two are worthless.” — André Aciman Respect Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real… — Andre Aciman Human Copy Share Image
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering. — Andre Aciman Grateful Copy Share Image
“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted no secrets, no screens, nothing between us. Little did I know that if I relished the gust of candor that… — André Aciman Honesty Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“Shame, which is the reluctance to be who we're not even sure we are, could end up being the deepest thing about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough… — Andre Aciman Credible 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 looked at him: I want one more kiss. I should, could, have seized him. By the next morning, things became officially… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder what turn my life would have taken had someone else shown up instead. I wouldn’t have gone to… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“Elio: Are you sory I came? Oliver: I'd holt you and kiss you if I could.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome -… — Andre Aciman Anything Copy Share Image
“Domestic bliss. Just because he’d let me be his top last night.” — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“Is it better to speak or die?” I’d never even have the courage to ask such a question.” — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“You’ll kill me if you stop, you’ll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He was whispering, “Off, and off, and off, and off,” which made me laugh, and suddenly I was totally naked, feeling the… — André Aciman 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
