“When it comes to the senses all humans speak the same beastly tongue” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Elio: Are you sory I came? Oliver: I'd holt you and kiss you if I could.” — André Aciman Kiss Copy Share Image
“for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.” — André Aciman Eighties Copy Share Image
“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
“We were—and he must have recognized the signs long before I did—flirting.” — André Aciman Flirting Copy Share Image
“You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come… — André Aciman Coming of age Copy Share Image
“Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.” — André Aciman Morning Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Book 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
“she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d hold you and kiss you if I could.” “Me too.” I came up to his ear as he was just about… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Just because someone says he'll see you at midnight doesn't mean you're automatically bound to hug him when you've barely shaken hands… — André Aciman Andre-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
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
“Watching him wearing my clothes was an unbearable turn-on. And he knew it. It was turning both of us on. The thought… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I had known it would hurt. What I hadn’t expected was that the hurt would find itself coiled and twisted into sudden… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I want you as intermezzo. So I said, I want you as both, or as in between. “He seemed taken aback. “Naughty,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Are you going to be okay?' 'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my crotch, to my complete dismay I saw it was damp. Had he seen it? Surely he must… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman 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
“Oliver: I knew I was making you uncomfortable, but I just had to make sure. Elio: So you knew all this time?… — André Aciman 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
“Elio: This is my spot. All mine. I come here to read. I can't tell you the number of booksI've read here.… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Elio: You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, becaue only then will this thing I… — André Aciman Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for… — André Aciman Grief Copy Share Image
“As I sat there working on transcriptions at my round table in the morning, what I would have settled for was not… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder what turn my life would have taken had someone else shown up instead. I wouldn’t have gone to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours? — Andre Aciman Escape Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I respected and feared him and hated him for making me hate myself.” — André Aciman Hate Copy Share Image
“We were alone together for three days, we knew no one in the city, I could be anyone, say anything, do anything.” — André Aciman City Copy Share Image
“Here was someone who lacked for nothing. I couldn’t understand this feeling. I envied him.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I had all along, without seeming to, without even admitting it, already been trying—and failing—to win him over.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
