“I don't always think I'm a good person. But telling people this only makes them want to prove me wrong, and the… — André Aciman Good person Copy Share Image
To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom… — Andre Aciman Impossible 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 Copy Share Image
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
'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
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman First 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 Friendship 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
“And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.” — André Aciman Jealousy Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the senses all humans speak the same beastly tongue” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure I want to go ahead with this, but I need to know, and better with you than anyone else.… — André Aciman 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
“He was obviously proud of his Berber skin. "This is the colour of wheat and gold.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“just two men kissing, and even this seemed to dissolve, as I began to feel we were not even two men, just… — André Aciman Man To Man 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
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
“I sensed that he was staring at me as I was explaining Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, which I’d been transcribing.… — André Aciman Last words 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 Time Copy Share Image
“Do you want me man or woman? she/he asked, as if one could scale one’s way back up our phylogenetic tree.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ..." "...… — Andre Aciman Measure of a man 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
“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
“Watching him wearing my clothes was an unbearable turn-on. And he knew it. It was turning both of us on. The thought… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I began, reluctantly, to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future. This, I knew,… — André Aciman Sunny afternoon 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
