“Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how… — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period. — Andre Aciman Egypt Copy Share Image
“Yes, the past is a foreign country", I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“That day belongs to a different time warp. We should learn to leave sleeping dogs—” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Jewish?" "Moslem?" I replied. "Just like a Jew: always answers with a question." "Just like a Moslem: always answers the wrong question.” — André Aciman Judaism Copy Share Image
“Marzia: People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are. Elio: Do… — André Aciman Changing your mind Copy Share Image
“Oh, Oliver, I said to myself on my way to the kitchen for a quick bite to eat, I’ll do anything for… — André Aciman First love Copy Share Image
“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.” — André Aciman Morning Copy Share Image
“Or had I come with a far more menial purpose? To find him living alone, waiting for me, craving to be taken… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Is this why people say “maybe” when they mean “yes,” but hope you’ll think it’s “no” when all they really mean is,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Something bordering on nausea, something like remorse—was that it, then?—began to grip me and seemed to define itself ever more clearly the… — André Aciman Regret Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.” — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“I knew there’d be no coming back from this. When it happened, it happened not as I’d dreamed it would, but with… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As far as he was concerned, all women wanted all men. And vice versa. What stood in the way between a man… — André Aciman Doing things Copy Share Image
“He was my secret conduit to myself—like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer,… — André Aciman Soulmate Copy Share Image
“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“All I really wanted was one night with him, just one night—one hour, even—if only to determine whether I wanted him for… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the… — Andre Aciman Cells Copy Share Image
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually… — André Aciman Ambivalence Copy Share Image
