“They can never undo it, never unwrite it, never unlive it, or relive it—it’s just stuck there like a vision of fireflies… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“There is a spot on via Santa Maria dell' Anima that I revisit every time I'm in Rome. I'll stare at it… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“We got into the car. It was my first time. The car was spotless and I liked its smell, the smell of… — André Aciman Bad feelings Copy Share Image
“To live with yourself you had to cut off the hand that offended, cut, slice, peel, scrape, and tear away at yourself… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Do you know what you’re saying?” This time I looked out to the sea and, with a vague and weary tone that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Now may I taste it?” I shook my head. He dipped a finger into the core of the peach and brought it… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Oh, Oliver, I said to myself on my way to the kitchen for a quick bite to eat, I’ll do anything for… — André Aciman First love 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 Copy Share Image
“I look back on those days and regret none of it, not the risks, not the shame, not the total lack of… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't flush," I'd said, "I… — André Aciman Compassion 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 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
“As I watched my own reflection on the glass panels of the Green Line car heading out to Newton that evening, I… — Andre Aciman Masks Copy Share Image
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand; but, as all superstitious… — André Aciman Darkness Copy Share Image
“Must we?” This was the closest I would ever come to saying, Stay. Just stay with me. Let your hand travel wherever… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The picture would remind Oliver of the morning when I first spoke out. Or of the day when we rode by the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“And like the old men who sat around the piazzetta facing the Piave memorial, we’ll speak about two young men who found… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“On our way we passed a shop where my mother always ordered flowers. As a child I liked to watch the large… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“My mother, who hated what she called his Americanisms , ended up calling him Il cauboi —the cowboy. It started as a… — André Aciman Affectionate Copy Share Image
“How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
“I already told you, I’m okay.” “Did I tell you I was okay too?” “Yes.” He smiled. I looked away, because he… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As far as he was concerned, all women wanted all men. And vice versa. What stood in the way between a man… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Oliver: But there's the catch: you're still twenty years younger than those gathered around you, which is why I can be twenty-four… — André Aciman Parallel lives Copy Share Image
“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the… — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“What did you write on the back of the postcard?” “It was going to be a surprise.” “I’m too old for surprises.… — André Aciman Surprise Copy Share Image
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually… — André Aciman Ambivalence Copy Share Image
“Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“But I was in heaven. That he hadn’t forgotten our conversation about Celan gave me a shot of tonic I hadn’t experienced… — André Aciman Communication Copy Share Image
“You’ll kill me if you stop, you’ll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Cities-spaces-places Copy Share Image
“If I liked listening to him, it was not because I believed or even respected the stuff he mouthed off every day… — André Aciman Clash of civilizations Copy Share Image
There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Outside, the night was settling fast. I liked the peace and the silence of the countryside, with its fading alpenglow and darkling… — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I… — André Aciman Alone Copy Share Image
“As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary… — André Aciman Friendship Copy Share Image
“But that moment of what seemed like bliss now when we'd walked our bikes on the piazzetta both before and after our… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Or, when I wasn't practicing the guitar and he wasn't listening to his headphones, still with his straw hat flat on his… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what… — André Aciman Business Copy Share Image
