I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as… — Andre Aciman Behind 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
“How I wished I had shoulders like his. Maybe I wouldn’t long for them if I had them?” — André Aciman Shoulders Copy Share Image
“ I don't care to remember —like I know myself —hinted at a realm of human experience only others had access to,… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I knew I was making you uncomfortable, but I just had to make sure.” “So you knew all this time?” “Let’s say… — André Aciman Knew 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 Wore 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 Ambiguities Copy Share Image
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised. — Andre Aciman About Copy Share Image
“I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in… — André Aciman Book Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed.… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Hidden Copy Share Image
“We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I tried imitating him a few times. But I was too self-conscious, like someone trying to feel natural while walking about naked… — André Aciman Imitating Copy Share Image
“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I should have learned to do what he’d have done. Shrugged my shoulders—and been okay with pre-come. But that wasn’t me. It… — André Aciman Learned Copy Share Image
“Just promise to let me keep it after you’re gone.” “That’s all?” “Well, wear it a lot today—and don’t swim in it.”… — André Aciman Want Copy Share Image
“He took a breath. “We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we… — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“He was not the type to say that experience is all to the good, that nothing is wasted in life, that everyone… — André Aciman Book of life Copy Share Image
“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and… — André Aciman Life 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
“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via . Dante… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all. You see someone, but you don’t… — André Aciman Weeks Copy Share Image
“You okay?” “Fine. Fine,” I replied. Then, with an awkward smile, as if correcting his initial question: “Are you okay everywhere?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Blue: the afternoon he stepped into my room from the balcony, the day he massaged my shoulder, or when he picked up… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“Or does one accrue a deficit of malaise so large that one learns to find ways to consolidate it in one lump… — André Aciman 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
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were… — André Aciman Far apart Copy Share Image
“The secret was out of my body. So what if he saw. So what if he caught me. So what, so what,… — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because… — André Aciman Admire Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t a hope left. And maybe I stared back because there wasn’t a thing to lose now. I stared back with… — André Aciman Hope Copy Share Image
“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
“Then came the giggle, this time for real, as if she had committed a naughty prank but was not in the least… — André Aciman Giggle Copy Share Image
“softening the tone of my answer with a meaningfully evasive Perhaps that was supposed to mean Absolutely, when I let my tongue… — André Aciman Said Copy Share Image
“Finally his voice came through. 'Elio,' he said. I could hear my parents and the voices of children in the background. No… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Did he ignore me the way I ignored him that morning: on purpose, to draw me out, to protect himself, to show… — André Aciman Ignored 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 Brought Copy Share Image
“Something unexpected seemed to clear away between us, and, for a second, it seemed there was absolutely no difference in age between… — André Aciman Men Kissing Copy Share Image
“I could never think of him in New England. When I lived in New England for a while and was separated from… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
