"Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.……" — André Aciman
"Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are."
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13 Quotes by André Aciman
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Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
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As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds…
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All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
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I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me,…
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If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life…
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I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts…
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At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
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If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with…
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Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the…
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were…
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No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of…
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Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on…
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