376 Quotes by André Aciman

Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how you acquire it, what you pay for it, black market, grey market, taxed, untaxed, under the table, over the counter.

I think everyone is wounded in their sex,” I said. “I can’t think of one person who isn’t.

I was his friend. There was nothing more to want.

You're alone, as I'm alone, and the cruelest thing is that finding each other and saying let us be alone together won't solve a thing.

I looked at him: I want one more kiss. I should, could, have seized him.By the next morning, things became officially chilly.

I belonged here the way I belonged to this planet and its people, but on one condition: alone, always alone.

And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.

Is it that you don’t like people, or that you just grow tired of them and can’t for the life of you remember why you ever found them interesting?