“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
“Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what… — André Aciman Business 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 Cease to exist 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
“Hesitantly, I crawled onto the bed and sat facing him, cross-legged like him, as though this were the accepted protocol among men… — André Aciman 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 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 Israel Copy Share Image
“I could speak about the Haydn for hours—what a lovely friendship this might have been.” — André Aciman 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
Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades… — Andre Aciman Father 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 Sleep Copy Share Image
“Say nothing and he' ll think you regret having written. Say anything and it will be out of place. Do what, then?… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them. — Andre Aciman Patience Copy Share Image
“I knew that he was filled with grief when he finally kissed me one last time in one of the bathroom stalls… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours? — Andre Aciman Escape Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell him that the pool, the garden, the house, the tennis court, the orle of paradise, the whole place,… — André Aciman Bathing suit 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 Regret 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
“He pressed me against the wall and started to kiss me, his hips pushing into mine, his arms about to lift me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We were—and he must have recognized the signs long before I did—flirting.” — André Aciman 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
“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 Programming Copy Share Image
“Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I… — André Aciman Love 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
