“Let’s go now.” He extended his hand to help me get up. I grabbed it and, turning on my side facing the… — André Aciman Grabbed Copy Share Image
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things:… — André Aciman Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“He remembered and instantly moaned his own name three times, as we’d done during that night. I could feel myself already getting… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that if one word from him could make me so happy, another could just as easily crush… — André Aciman Crush Copy Share Image
“The thud my heart gave when I saw him unannounced both terrified and thrilled me. I was afraid when he showed up,… — André Aciman Frightened Copy Share Image
“His smell reminded me of Marzia’s, and how she too always seemed to exude that brine of the seashore on those days… — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“I know you’re not sleeping, they’d say, and gently press the soft, overripe peach on my cock till I’d pierced the fruit… — André Aciman Overripe Peach Copy Share Image
“Seeing him and thinking he'd join us for dinner tonight only to hear his peremptory Esco taught me there are certain wishes… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things,… — Andre Aciman Facts 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
“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
“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
“Because everyone liked him, I had to say I liked him too. I was like men who openly declare other men irresistibly… — André Aciman Liked 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 Liked 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
“I think he was better than me, Papa.” “I am sure he’d say the same about you, which flatters the two of… — André Aciman Papa Copy Share Image
“I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his… — André Aciman Kindness Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and… — André Aciman Gaze Copy Share Image
“My father, always the most indulgent among us, but also the most observant, had figured the cauboi out. “É un timido, he’s… — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the… — André Aciman Aciman Copy Share Image
“The look on his face became like the tiny snapshot of a beloved that soldiers take with them to the battlefield, not… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“This felt special. Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken—and I don’t think I was—that what we had between us was the total transparency that exists among friends only.… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” he finally asked. “Nothing.” I didn’t know myself, but his body gradually began to reciprocate the movement, somewhat… — André Aciman Toes Copy Share Image
“I had come with truth and human kindness in my heart and that I was leaving it on his sheets now to… — André Aciman Human kindness Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't even remember last night's anxieties. They were completely overshadowed by what followed them and seemed to belong to a… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Cor cordium, heart of hearts,” I replied, referring to the moment when a friend had seized Shelley’s heart before the flames had… — André Aciman Engulfed Copy Share Image
“Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe"… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The story so aroused me that practically without warning the orgasm was almost upon me. I sensed I could just stop then… — André Aciman Aroused Copy Share Image
“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they… — André Aciman Arrogance Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be with you all,' I responded, getting all worked up myself over someone I had almost entirely stopped… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“When every Jew and every Arab will have killed each other, there'll still be one Arab and one Jew left and they'll… — André Aciman Friendship 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
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
“I liked it when our feet were aligned, left with left, and struck the ground at the same time, leaving footprints on… — André Aciman Gay-romance Copy Share Image
“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment. Later! didn’t close things neatly… — André Aciman Aftertaste Copy Share Image
