Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those…

- André Aciman

As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compile…

- André Aciman

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we …

- André Aciman

My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually they dare to …

- André Aciman

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

- André Aciman

Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

- André Aciman

If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us…

- André Aciman

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to for…

- André Aciman

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

- André Aciman