“But seeing everyone take such a liking to him, I found a strange, small oasis of peace.” — André Aciman Peace Copy Share Image
“But you’re doing it now—in a way.” “Yes, in a way—that’s how I always say things: in a way.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“...he, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul.” — André Aciman Soul 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 Copy Share Image
“Hesitantly, I crawled onto the bed and sat facing him, cross-legged like him, as though this were the accepted protocol among men… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Do you want me man or woman? she/he asked, as if one could scale one’s way back up our phylogenetic tree.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.” — André Aciman Call-me-by-your-name Copy Share Image
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are. — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on… — André Aciman Memories Copy Share Image
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Of course it had moved me, but it had flattered me as well, as though his gesture had said, I believe with… — André Aciman Die Inside Copy Share Image
“How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Apathy Copy Share Image
Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome -… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his eyes unless I’d been invited to—and I never waited long… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d had him inside me barely a few hours ago and that later he had come all over my chest, because he… — André Aciman Thrilled Copy Share Image
“I reached for him and let my hand rest on his crotch. He did not move. I should have slipped my hand… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have any time left, because he brought his lips to my mouth, a warm, conciliatory, I’ll-meet-you-halfway-but-no-further kiss till he realized… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d cast a glance and then look away—look away because I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Oliver: Do you have any idea how glad I am that we slept together? Elio:I don't know. Oliver: It would be just… — André Aciman Regret Copy Share Image
“I brought the bathing suit to my face, then rubbed my face inside of it, as if I were trying to snuggle… — André Aciman Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“All these years, whenever I thought of him, I'd think either of B. or of our last days in Rome, the whole… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“The better a writer, the better he erases his footprints- yet the better the writer, the more he wants us to intuit… — André Aciman Books Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Cease to exist Copy Share Image
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno.” — André Aciman Love Copy Share Image
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Not if you don’t want to.” I knew exactly what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to go over the moment… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to… — André Aciman Dreams Copy Share Image
“I looked at him: I want one more kiss. I should, could, have seized him. By the next morning, things became officially… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal… — André Aciman Fire Copy Share Image
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was find the source of happiness in me and not rely on others to supply it the… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? — André Aciman Copy Share Image
