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André Aciman Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
Tagged: Love, Lovers
“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Finding True Love, Once In A Lifetime Love, Finding The Stars In Another Human Being
“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being that someone we're longing to touch are one and the same.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Longing, Desire, To Desire Someone, To Desire Being Desired
“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Death
“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: How To Survive, How To Deal With Pain, Feeling your feelings, It Is Okay To Feel Things Deeply
“I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Never Wanting To Be Away From Someone, Pure Love, Extreme Love
“So writing, [for me], is a way of maybe stopping time or stopping an emotion and looking at it closely. And sometimes it's also stopping [my] feelings for another person and examining them. And in the examination to capture something about them and to enjoy looking at them through words.”
— André Aciman, ‘call me by your name’ author andré aciman on what makes a writer
Tagged: Inspirational
“The whole thing had a mysteriously surreal quality kept intentionally opaque by both of us—not because we wanted to allow events to catch us unprepared so that we might blame circumstances and not ourselves, but because by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they might ever die.”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: The Last Few Feelings Before A Goodbye, Pretending That Time Is Going To Stop
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Wasting Love, Rushing Healing, To Feel Nothing Is To Die
“Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is mockup and the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s the only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it”
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Death, Love, Duality
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