376 Quotes by André Aciman

I live for this. And if this is all there is, well, this is all there is.

As long as we can be one with something, anything, we're okay.

I should find someone to speak to, but—and the thought jolts me because I wasn't careful to nip it—the only one who'd understand is the very one I wish to lash out against. I'm like those seeking comfort or, better yet, advice, from the very person who abuses them.

And as I opened the door, I pivoted and performed what I hoped was one of those accomplished inspectors' by the way exit lines seen in so many movies: Did she happen to know how one could reach Giovanni, the cabinetmaker?

E soprattutto la pedita di persone che non sapevo nemmeno di dover ancora incontrare e amare ma di cui poi avevo perso le tracce e che non avevo rivisto mai più.

Yes, the past is a foreign country", I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating itinerants, itching to get out yet always aching to return.

He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul there's little else she won't bare...

Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ...""... and the brain of a tapir," would interrupt his nemesis, the Algerian.

Death, contrary to what everyone tells you, is not a part of life