Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay,… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough. — Andre Aciman Enough Copy Share Image
“But seeing everyone take such a liking to him, I found a strange, small oasis of peace.” — André Aciman Peace Copy Share Image
“Is it your body that I want when I think of lying next to it every night or do I want to… — André Aciman Bathing suit 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
“Something unexpected seemed to clear away between us, and, for a second, it seemed there was absolutely no difference in age between… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that was supposed to mean Absolutely, when I let my tongue loose: “Do I like you, Oliver? I worship you.” There,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I remembered the scene in the Bible when Jacob asks Rachel for water and on hearing her speak the words that were… — André Aciman Bible Copy Share Image
“I used intentionally compromised words because I knew no one would suspect a false bottom to the archaic pallets of shadings I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“You know what things. By now you of all people should know.” Silence. “Why are you telling me all this?” “Because I… — André Aciman Time Copy Share Image
“I brought the bathing suit to my face, then rubbed my face inside of it, as if I were trying to snuggle… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“For the day will come soon enough when I’ll look up and you’ll no longer be there.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?' 'Ye-es.' Now that I had spilled the beans I could take on the… — André Aciman Admission 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 Love Copy Share Image
“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be… — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
“My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.” — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up. 'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added,… — André Aciman Allusion Copy Share Image
“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next… — André Aciman Next time Copy Share Image
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps. — Andre Aciman Building Copy Share Image
“I wished we hadn’t slept together. Even his body left me indifferent. On the rock where we sat now I looked at… — André Aciman Salvation army Copy Share Image
“But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I'd lost track of and sloughed off… — Andre Aciman Green card Copy Share Image
