376 Quotes by André Aciman

«Chiagneva sempe ca durmeva sola,mo dorme co' li muorte accompagnata.She always wept because she slept alone,Now she sleeps among the dead.»I can, from the distance of years now, still think I'm hearing the voices of two young men singing these words in Neapolitan toward daybreak, neither realizing, as they held each other and kissed again and again on the dark lanes of old Rome, that this was the last night they would ever make love again.

What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.

Would I be able to live without his hand on my tummy or around my hips?

Then a strange idea got hold of me: What if my body-just my body, my heart-cried out for his? What to do then?What if at night I wouldn't be able to live with myself unless I had him by me, inside me? What then?

Because it would be very wrong."Would"? (I asked).

I think we should go.”"Not yet.

But down below along the rocky shore, in the moonlight, I caught sight of him.

Cuando volvimos a la librería, dejamos nuestras bicicletas fuera y entramos. Me sentí especial. Como si le mostrase a alguien una capilla privada, una guarida secreta, el lugar donde, como ocurrió con el muro, uno viene a estar solo, a soñar con los demás. Aquí es donde soñé contigo antes de que entrases en mi vida

This felt special. Like showing someone your private chapel, your secret haunt, the place where, as with the berm, one comes to be alone, to dream of others. This is where I dreamed of you before you came into my life.