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
“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
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed. — Andre Aciman Bearing Copy Share Image
“I wished I were like those soldiers in films who run out of bullets and toss away their guns as though they… — André Aciman Andre-aciman 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
“Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.” — André Aciman Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“But I wasn’t fooling myself. I was convinced that no one in the world wanted him as physically as I did; nor… — André Aciman Every night 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Next to it on the wall was a framed postcard of Monet's berm. I recognized it immediately. 'It used to be mine,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. — Andre Aciman Craft Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“He would never know, just as the people we buy the newspaper from and then fantasize about all night have no idea… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life,… — Andre Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“So I played one of the Goldberg Variations, which made me quiet and contemplative.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If not later, when?” My father liked it. “If not later, when?” It echoed Rabbi Hillel’s famous injunction, “If not now, when?” — André Aciman Parenting Copy Share Image
“But Later! was also a way of avoiding saying goodbye, of making light of all goodbyes. You said Later! not to mean… — André Aciman Saying goodbye Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium… — André Aciman Agency 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
“I want Billowy too. And the espadrilles. And the sunglasses. And you.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
