376 Quotes by André Aciman

Like Che Guevara, he'd appear wearing his beret, his pointed beard with the drooping mustache, and the cocksure swagger of someone who has just planted dynamite all over Cambridge and couldn't wait to trigger the fuse, but not before coffee and a croissant.

I was so spellbound that I wrenched myself free from his touch, because a moment longer and I would have slackened like one of those tiny wooden toys whose gimp-legged body collapses as soon as the mainsprings are touched.

Muistan sen vielä tänäkin päivänä: "Later!". Suljen silmäni, sanon tuon sanan ja olen taas Italiassa vuosia sitten. Kävelen puiden reunustamaa pihatietä, katselen kuinka hän nousee takstista yllään hulmuava sininen paita, rinnus levällään, päässä aurinkolasit ja olkihattu. Paljasta pintaa kaikkialla. Sitten hän jo ravistaa kättäni, ojentaa minulle reppunsa, nostaa matkalaukkunsa takakontista ja kysyy, onko isäni kotona. Kaikki saattoi alkaa jo heti siitä jo silloin.

Would I be able to live without his hand on my tummy or around my hips? Without kissing and licking a wound on his hip that would take weeks to heal, but away from me now? Whom else would I ever be able to call by my name?There would be others, of course, and others after others, but calling them by my name in a moment of passion would feel like a derived thrill, an affectation.

I want Billowy too. And the espadrilles. And the sunglasses. And you.

Nos desprendemos de tantas cosas propias para poder curarnos lo más rápido posible que a la edad de treinta ya estamos en bancarrota y cada vez tenemos menos que ofrecer cuando empezamos una nueva relación con alguien. Sin embargo, no sentir nada por miedo a sentir algo es un desperdicio.

And yet, out of the blue, a tender moment would erupt so suddenly between us that the words I longed to tell him would almost slip out of my mouth.

The sun was right on me now, and I loved the sun with a near pagan love for things of the earth. Pagan, that's what you are

The sun was right on me now, and I loved the sun with a near pagan love for things of the earth. Pagan, that's what you are.