“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.” — André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Copy Share Image
“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.” — André Aciman Astronomy Copy Share Image
Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery. — Andre Aciman Far Copy Share Image
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self. — Andre Aciman Alibi Copy Share Image
“Just because someone says he'll see you at midnight doesn't mean you're automatically bound to hug him when you've barely shaken hands… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“For the day will come soon enough when I’ll look up and you’ll no longer be there.” — André Aciman Come Copy Share Image
“she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.” — André Aciman Young Copy Share Image
“I’d hold you and kiss you if I could.” “Me too.” I came up to his ear as he was just about… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that I couldn’t allow myself to hope I’d ever see him wearing no bathing suit at all.” — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul… — André Aciman Women Met Copy Share Image
“I wanted it to remain, that he might actually like me, and that he liked me in just the way I liked… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough. — Andre Aciman Enough Copy Share Image
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?' 'Ye-es.' Now that I had spilled the beans I could take on the… — André Aciman Admission Copy Share Image
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we… — Andre Aciman History Copy Share Image
“He stood still, dropped his hand with the bundle of unsent letters still in it, and simply stood there staring at me,… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“But there was something at once chilling and off-putting in the sudden distance that crept between us in the most unexpected moments.… — André Aciman Sudden Copy Share Image
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Of course it had moved me, but it had flattered me as well, as though his gesture had said, I believe with… — André Aciman Die Inside Copy Share Image
“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on… — André Aciman Memories Copy Share Image
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and… — André Aciman Another time Copy Share Image
“In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“We should have talked…” “Maybe,” I said. Of all the things I could have uttered that morning, this insignificant “maybe” was the… — André Aciman Money Copy Share Image
“I was happy that the room would revert to me. In my/his room, it would be easier to remember our nights. No,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next… — André Aciman Next time Copy Share Image
“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how… — André Aciman Language Copy Share Image
“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman 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 Goodbye Copy Share Image
“Leaning out into the evening air, I knew that this might never be given to us again, and yet I couldn't bring… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most. — Andre Aciman Being Copy Share Image
“How very true, I thought. Oliver, I wish that you and I and all those we’ve held dear might live forever in… — André Aciman Forever Copy Share Image
“I had all along, without seeming to, without even admitting it, already been trying—and failing—to win him over.” — André Aciman Failing Copy Share Image
“What did I tell you?" Kalaj turned to me without even looking at the owner. "Everyone shuts their door in the end.” — André Aciman Closed door Copy Share Image
With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when… — Andre Aciman Belong Copy Share Image
“I want to know your body, I want to know how you feel, I want to know you, and through you, me.” — André Aciman Feel Copy Share Image
“I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all… — André Aciman Psychology Copy Share Image
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.” — André Aciman Far apart Copy Share Image
“What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.” — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“I had never been able to admit to myself how happy Oliver had made me the day he’d swallowed my peach.” — André Aciman Swallowed Copy Share Image
“Look, it’s very nice of you—and I appreciate it. But don’t.” His rebuke told me he wasn’t going to play my game.… — André Aciman Rebuke Copy Share Image
