“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 look back on those days and regret none of it, not the risks, not the shame, not the total lack of… — André Aciman Regret 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
“We love only once in our lives, my father had said, sometimes too early, sometimes too late; the other times are always… — André Aciman Father 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
“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
“I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot… — André Aciman Martini Copy Share Image
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough… — Andre Aciman Credible Copy Share Image
“I want you as intermezzo. So I said, I want you as both, or as in between. “He seemed taken aback. “Naughty,… — André Aciman First time 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
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“But I also knew that I was circling wagons around my life with try again later s, and that months, seasons, entire… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that I was hoping we'd go together.' 'You mean like the other day?' he added, as though to help… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had worshipped them all once. I had touched them the way a civet rubs itself on the objects it covets. They’d… — André Aciman Desire 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
“Elio: This is my spot. All mine. I come here to read. I can't tell you the number of booksI've read here.… — André Aciman Books 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
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind… — Andre Aciman Behind Copy Share Image
“read stories of restless people who always end up alone and hate being alone because it’s always themselves they can’t stand being… — André Aciman Hate being alone Copy Share Image
“Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same.” — André Aciman Changed Copy Share Image
“Soon she'd spot the bruise behind the inflection. I blamed her for not seeing the bruise so I wouldn't be blamed for… — André Aciman Guilt Copy Share Image
“Cor cordium, heart of hearts, I’ve never said anything truer in my life to anyone.” — André Aciman Heart Copy Share Image
“Smile, and the world smiles back. “Oliver, I’m happy,” I said. He looked at me in wonderment. “You’re just horny.” “No, happy.” — André Aciman Horny Copy Share Image
“It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.” — André Aciman Flirting Copy Share Image
“Not if you don’t want to.” I knew exactly what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to go over the moment… — André Aciman Time Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Bland Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Oliver Copy Share Image
“Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno.” — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down. — Andre Aciman Find Copy Share Image
“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?” — André Aciman Afternoon Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him?” — André Aciman Want Copy Share Image
