My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most. — Andre Aciman Being Copy Share Image
“How very true, I thought. Oliver, I wish that you and I and all those we’ve held dear might live forever in… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“What did I tell you?" Kalaj turned to me without even looking at the owner. "Everyone shuts their door in the end.” — André Aciman 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 Copy Share Image
“Leaning out into the evening air, I knew that this might never be given to us again, and yet I couldn't bring… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“If not later, when?” My father liked it. “If not later, when?” It echoed Rabbi Hillel’s famous injunction, “If not now, when?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted it to remain, that he might actually like me, and that he liked me in just the way I liked… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that I couldn’t allow myself to hope I’d ever see him wearing no bathing suit at all.” — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in… — André Aciman Book Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed.… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens between us, Elio, I just want you to know. Don’t ever say you didn’t know.” He was still chewing. In… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure I want to go ahead with this, but I need to know, and better with you than anyone else.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Shame, which is the reluctance to be who we're not even sure we are, could end up being the deepest thing about… — Andre Aciman Shame Copy Share Image
“Which was when a crazier notion possessed me. I undid his bed, took off his suit, and cuddled it between his sheets,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I knew there’d be no coming back from this. When it happened, it happened not as I’d dreamed it would, but with… — André Aciman Reluctance Copy Share Image
“It was just that I was hoping we'd go together.' 'You mean like the other day?' he added, as though to help… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I had worshipped them all once. I had touched them the way a civet rubs itself on the objects it covets. They’d… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“I don't always think I'm a good person. But telling people this only makes them want to prove me wrong, and the… — André Aciman Good person Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all. You see someone, but you don’t… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via . Dante… — André Aciman Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss. — Andre Aciman Beauty Copy Share Image
“He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He pressed me against the wall and started to kiss me, his hips pushing into mine, his arms about to lift me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“My father laughed it off, saying I was too old not to accept people as they were.” — André Aciman Humor Copy Share Image
“I liked how our minds seemed to travel in parallel, how we instantly inferred what words the other was toying with but… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Any moment now we were going to say goodbye. Suddenly part of my life was going to be taken away from me… — André Aciman Goodbye Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t realize was that wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without… — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“I have three things: my cab, my zeb , and my dignity. Without one, the other two are worthless.” — André Aciman Dignity Copy Share Image
“So I played one of the Goldberg Variations, which made me quiet and contemplative.” — André Aciman Contemplative Copy Share Image
“Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.” — André Aciman Desire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.” — André Aciman Art Copy Share Image
“None of our summer guests had ever been as freewheeling. But everyone loved him for it, the way everyone grew to love… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Try again later meant, I haven’t the courage now. Things weren’t ready just yet. Where I’d find the will and the courage… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period. — Andre Aciman Egypt 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
