“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Instrument Copy Share Image
“This was the best person I’d ever known in my life. I had chosen him well.” — André Aciman Best Copy Share Image
“we were eloping together with return-trip tickets to separate destinations.” — André Aciman Return Trip Copy Share Image
“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?” — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.” — André Aciman Freedom of speech Copy Share Image
“I used intentionally compromised words because I knew no one would suspect a false bottom to the archaic pallets of shadings I… — André Aciman Compromised Copy Share Image
“Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.” — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t realize was that wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Here was someone who lacked for nothing. I couldn’t understand this feeling. I envied him.” — André Aciman Understand Feeling Copy Share Image
“We were alone together for three days, we knew no one in the city, I could be anyone, say anything, do anything.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come… — André Aciman Coming of age Copy Share Image
“It was the porousness, the fungibility, of our bodies—what was mine was suddenly his, just as what belonged to him could be… — André Aciman Suddenly Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Hurt Copy Share Image
“For you, however you think of it, it’s still fun and games, which it should be. For me it’s something else which… — André Aciman Games Copy Share Image
“how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same.… — André Aciman Change Copy Share Image
“But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone… — André Aciman Walked Home Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk.… — André Aciman Asked Copy Share Image
“No,” I answered. But I had answered too swiftly for someone who meant what he was saying. To soften the ambiguity of… — André Aciman Asking Copy Share Image
“It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass to… — André Aciman Apricot 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
“Like Che Guevara, he'd appear wearing his beret, his pointed beard with the drooping mustache, and the cocksure swagger of someone who… — André Aciman Revolutionary Copy Share Image
“I’d cast a glance and then look away—look away because I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his… — André Aciman Stare Copy Share Image
“Oliver: Do you have any idea how glad I am that we slept together? Elio:I don't know. Oliver: It would be just… — André Aciman Regret Copy Share Image
“I reached for him and let my hand rest on his crotch. He did not move. I should have slipped my hand… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“Of course, he had no idea what I’d been thinking minutes earlier, but the firm, rounded cheeks of the apricot with their… — André Aciman Touching Apricot Copy Share Image
“Not a fire of passion, not a ravaging fire, but something paralyzing, like the fire of cluster bombs that suck up the… — André Aciman Feelings Copy Share Image
“I smiled right away, because I caught his attempt to backpedal, which instantly brought complicit smiles to our faces, like a passionate… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Oliver: I'm like you. I remember everything. Elio: I stopped for a second. If you remember everthing, I wanted to say, and… — André Aciman Remember Copy Share Image
“I couldn't understand how boldness and sorrow, how you're so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly… — André Aciman Adolescence Copy Share Image
“You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.” — André Aciman Rare Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it. — Andre Aciman Cannot Copy Share Image
“I respected and feared him and hated him for making me hate myself.” — André Aciman Hate Copy Share Image
“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
