“My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.” — André Aciman Disarmed Copy Share Image
“the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to dream of others.” — André Aciman Dream Copy Share Image
“In a few days he'd be gone. If only he'd be back exactly a year from now.” — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you.” — André Aciman Lies 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 Father Copy Share Image
“It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.” — André Aciman Flirting Copy Share Image
“Smile, and the world smiles back. “Oliver, I’m happy,” I said. He looked at me in wonderment. “You’re just horny.” “No, happy.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Cor cordium, heart of hearts, I’ve never said anything truer in my life to anyone.” — André Aciman Heart Copy Share Image
“Soon she'd spot the bruise behind the inflection. I blamed her for not seeing the bruise so I wouldn't be blamed for… — André Aciman Guilt Copy Share Image
“Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same.” — 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 Regret Copy Share Image
“I want to know your body, I want to know how you feel, I want to know you, and through you, me.” — André Aciman 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
“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into… — Andre Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“I'd heard him tell a woman who complained he never helped her achieve orgasm, that she should treasure the memory of her… — André Aciman French revolution 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 Copy Share Image
With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life,… — Andre Aciman Art 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
“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
“A thought raced through my mind: Would my descendants know what was spoken on this very piazzetta today? Would anyone? Or would… — André Aciman Fate Copy Share Image
“that his hair, turning blonder every day, caught the sun before the sun was completely out in the morning; that his billowy… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Elio: What were you doing? Oliver: Thinking. Elio: About? Oliver: Things. Going back to the States. The courses I have to teach… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more… — André Aciman Every morning 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
“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once,… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Not know that I didn’t want him to let go of me? Not sense that when he started massaging me, my inability… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.” — André Aciman Instrument Copy Share Image
“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.” — André Aciman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...in my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.” — André Aciman Greatness Copy Share Image
“Domestic bliss. Just because he’d let me be his top last night.” — André Aciman Bliss Copy Share Image
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. — Andre Aciman Craft Copy Share Image
