“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
“The thud my heart gave when I saw him unannounced both terrified and thrilled me. I was afraid when he showed up,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We stopped talking. Even when we shared the same spot in the morning, talk was at best idle and stopgap. You couldn’t… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Or does the presence of the other, who yesterday morning felt almost like an intruder, become ever more necessary because it shields… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“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
“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's… — 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
“I knew they didn't suspect a thing, and it bothered me—though I wouldn't have wanted it otherwise. It told me that if… — André Aciman 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 had heeded the warning, and as is said of juries who have heard inadmissible evidence before it is stricken from… — André Aciman Borrowed time Copy Share Image
“So what if he saw? Now he knows. What never crossed my mind was that someone else who lived under our roof,… — André Aciman Blessing Copy Share Image
“To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touched a… — André Aciman Gay Copy Share Image
“If he didn’t touch me, then I’d be the one to touch him, and if he didn’t respond, I’d let my mouth… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Maybe it started soon after his arrival during one of those grinding lunches when he sat next to me and it finally… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I been so happy. Nothing could go wrong, everything was happening my way, all the doors were… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Do you really like to read that much?” she asked as we ambled our way casually in the dark toward the piazzetta.… — André Aciman 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
“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg… — André Aciman Andre-aciman 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
“Or had I come with a far more menial purpose? To find him living alone, waiting for me, craving to be taken… — André Aciman Andre-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 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
“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
“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
“Then he kissed me, and kissed me again, deeply this second time, as if he too was finally letting go. At some… — 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 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 Diplomat 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
“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
“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a… — André Aciman Fear Copy Share Image
“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“And yet, about two weeks after his arrival, all I wanted every night was for him to leave his room, not via… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Marzia: People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are. Elio: Do… — André Aciman Changing your mind Copy Share Image
“I knew exactly what phrase in the piece must have stirred him the first time, and each time I played it, I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The reason why the book begins with the wish to “play back” how the two met is precisely to see if repeating… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He renamed everything around him to snub the world and show there were other ways of seeing and calling things and that… — André Aciman French language Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a married chatelaine who, after sleeping with a young vassal one night, had him seized by the palace… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
