376 Quotes by André Aciman

No one my age had ever wanted to be both man and woman-with both men and women.

What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my foreverland of ambiguities.

No, No one likes being alone. But I've learned how to live with it.

Time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.

How wonderful, to walk half drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone's arm around me.

If only I could dream of you. Sometimes I do. But not often enough. Dreams are like practice runs and mini-rehearsals; they tell us what we'll do, when to ask, how we'll touch when the time comes, if the time comes.

This was all in the head. And that's where it stays.

Let the snake that bit you bite me back. Let it bite me on the lip. Die with me.

I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg coiled around his. I thought of coming back here in the weeks or months to come—for this was our spot.