“That day belongs to a different time warp. We should learn to leave sleeping dogs—” — 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?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as… — André Aciman Life Copy Share Image
“Anchise, all of them trying to teach him a Neapolitan song. It was not only the national hymn of their southern youth,… — André Aciman Song Copy Share Image
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass to… — André Aciman Apricot Copy Share Image
“I put his pillow over my face, kissed it savagely, and, wrapping my legs around it, told it what I lacked the… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Like Che Guevara, he'd appear wearing his beret, his pointed beard with the drooping mustache, and the cocksure swagger of someone who… — André Aciman Revolutionary Copy Share Image
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak… — André Aciman Courage Copy Share Image
“But Later! was also a way of avoiding saying goodbye, of making light of all goodbyes. You said Later! not to mean… — André Aciman Goodbye Copy Share Image
“But I also knew that I was circling wagons around my life with try again later s, and that months, seasons, entire… — André Aciman 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
“You are the only person I’d like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call… — André Aciman Cease to exist 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 Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how… — André Aciman Language Copy Share Image
“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“For you, however you think of it, it’s still fun and games, which it should be. For me it’s something else which… — André Aciman Games Copy Share Image
“how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same.… — André Aciman Change Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“No,” I answered. But I had answered too swiftly for someone who meant what he was saying. To soften the ambiguity of… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He would never know, just as the people we buy the newspaper from and then fantasize about all night have no idea… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me. You see me. But you don't see me. Everyone else sees me. And yet no one has… — André Aciman Fear Copy Share Image
“That was the poet’s lesson, I presume. In a month or so from now, when I’d revisit Rome, being here tonight with… — André Aciman Poetry Copy Share Image
“What does this say about the life you've lived, then?' 'Part of it— just part of it —was a coma, but I… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“...you and I , when the night is spread out against the sky, and read stories of restless people who always end… — André Aciman Hate being alone Copy Share Image
“Was I glad to be alone now that sleep was upon me? Yes. Well, no. Yes. But maybe not. Yes, yes, yes.… — André Aciman Happiness Copy Share Image
“And yet another part of me knew that if he showed up tonight and I disliked the start of whatever was in… — André Aciman Andre-aciman Copy Share Image
“Besides, thinking that I’d already lost her might ease the tension between us and allow me to regain my footing and act… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“just two men kissing, and even this seemed to dissolve, as I began to feel we were not even two men, just… — André Aciman Man To Man Copy Share Image
“I wished we hadn’t slept together. Even his body left me indifferent. On the rock where we sat now I looked at… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Something bordering on nausea, something like remorse—was that it, then?—began to grip me and seemed to define itself ever more clearly the… — André Aciman Regret Copy Share Image
“Just as he probably didn’t care or notice each time my eyes wandered along his bathing suit and tried to make out… — André Aciman Bathing suit 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
“I sensed that he was staring at me as I was explaining Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, which I’d been transcribing.… — André Aciman Last words Copy Share Image
What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
