“Looking at him now from the balustrade, I felt something so tender for him that it reminded me how eagerly I had… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Luckily I’d asked him again to give me Billowy that morning, after I’d made sure he wore it all through our stay… — André Aciman 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 Copy Share Image
“I knew they didn't suspect a thing, and it bothered me—though I wouldn't have wanted it otherwise. It told me that if… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
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“Oliver: You never did forgive me, did you? Elio: Forgive? There was nothing to forgive. If anything, I'm grateful for everything. I… — André Aciman Family 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 Copy Share Image
“He saw through everybody, but he saw through them precisely because the first thing he looked for in people was the very… — André Aciman Identity 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
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Cities-spaces-places Copy Share Image
“As I sat there working on transcriptions at my round table in the morning, what I would have settled for was not… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“Oliver looked at me, meaning, Did you like it? I shrugged my shoulders, like someone reserving judgment for later. But I was… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know what I was afraid of, nor why I worried so much, nor why this thing that could so easily… — André Aciman Anxiety 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 Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask… — André Aciman 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 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
There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that… — Andre Aciman Door Copy Share Image
“Or: how do you go back to sleep no longer a virgin? There was no coming back from that!” — André Aciman Sleep Copy Share Image
“And yes, there was such a luster in his eyes that I had to look away, and when I looked back at… — André Aciman Gaze 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 Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, sudden soreness triggered a twinge of discomfort and shame. Whoever said the soul and the body met… — André Aciman Pineal gland Copy Share Image
“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
