“Perhaps that was supposed to mean Absolutely, when I let my tongue loose: “Do I like you, Oliver? I worship you.” There,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“That steely look of yours, Oliver, I’d rather die than face it once I’ve told you.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them. — Andre Aciman Patience Copy Share Image
“We were not conspicuous Jews. We wore our Judaism as people do almost everywhere in the world: under the shirt, not hidden,… — André Aciman Israel Copy Share Image
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“You okay?” “Fine. Fine,” I replied. Then, with an awkward smile, as if correcting his initial question: “Are you okay everywhere?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Or does one accrue a deficit of malaise so large that one learns to find ways to consolidate it in one lump… — André Aciman Malaise Copy Share Image
“Blue: the afternoon he stepped into my room from the balcony, the day he massaged my shoulder, or when he picked up… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But there was something at once chilling and off-putting in the sudden distance that crept between us in the most unexpected moments.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He was my secret conduit to myself—like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“With open arms, caro. Jokes were being bandied back and forth. You know our tradition, explained my mother, you must always come… — André Aciman Open arms Copy Share Image
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?' 'Ye-es.' Now that I had spilled the beans I could take on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“lemonade, suntan lotion, books, espadrilles, sunglasses, colored pens, and music, which he listened to with headphones, so that it was impossible to… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“He stood still, dropped his hand with the bundle of unsent letters still in it, and simply stood there staring at me,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we… — Andre Aciman History Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell him that the pool, the garden, the house, the tennis court, the orle of paradise, the whole place,… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“He was not the type to say that experience is all to the good, that nothing is wasted in life, that everyone… — André Aciman Book of life Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things,… — Andre Aciman Facts Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the physical and the metaphorical meanings are clumsy ways of understanding what happens when two beings need, not just to be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He took a breath. “We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we… — André Aciman Father Copy Share Image
“I knew that he was filled with grief when he finally kissed me one last time in one of the bathroom stalls… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my… — André Aciman Ambiguities Copy Share Image
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid. — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“And yet, out of the blue, a tender moment would erupt so suddenly between us that the words I longed to tell… — André Aciman Admittance Copy Share Image
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering. — Andre Aciman Grateful Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in this, as with everything else, because I didn't know how to speak in code, I didn't know how to speak… — André Aciman Code Copy Share Image
“Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca” — André Aciman Amor Copy Share Image
Egypt wants to be young again. Israel must show it never grew old. Egypt wants to wake up and dream again. Israel… — Andre Aciman Egypt Copy Share Image
“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment.” — André Aciman Aftertaste Copy Share Image
“The secret was out of my body. So what if he saw. So what if he caught me. So what, so what,… — André Aciman Body Copy Share Image
“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Or: how do you go back to sleep no longer a virgin? There was no coming back from that!” — André Aciman Sleep Copy Share Image
“He was obviously proud of his Berber skin. "This is the colour of wheat and gold.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I could speak about the Haydn for hours—what a lovely friendship this might have been.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
