“You never did forgive me, did you?' 'Forgive? There was nothing to forgive. If anything, I'm grateful for everything. I remember good… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I smiled right away, because I caught his attempt to backpedal, which instantly brought complicit smiles to our faces, like a passionate… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Just as he probably didn’t care or notice each time my eyes wandered along his bathing suit and tried to make out… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted. — Andre Aciman Better Copy Share Image
“I needed him as far away as possible if I was to feel better and forget—but I needed him close by in… — André Aciman Pay the price Copy Share Image
“All these years, whenever I thought of him, I'd think either of B. or of our last days in Rome, the whole… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Intelligent? He was more than intelligent. What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Knock at my door at night and see if I haven’t already left it ajar for you. Walk inside. There’s always room… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away.… — Andre Aciman Could Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me. You see me. But you don't see me. Everyone else sees me. And yet no one has… — André Aciman Storm Within Copy Share Image
“For you, however you think of it, it’s still fun and games, which it should be. For me it’s something else which… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“That steely look of yours, Oliver, I’d rather die than face it once I’ve told you.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self. — Andre Aciman Alibi 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
“Of course, he had no idea what I’d been thinking minutes earlier, but the firm, rounded cheeks of the apricot with their… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Music making 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 Travel 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
“...you and I , when the night is spread out against the sky, and read stories of restless people who always end… — André Aciman Hate being alone Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the physical and the metaphorical meanings are clumsy ways of understanding what happens when two beings need, not just to be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Not know that I didn’t want him to let go of me? Not sense that when he started massaging me, my inability… — André Aciman 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 Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
