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Top 10 André Aciman Quotes (2024 Update)

André Aciman Quote: “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.”

1. “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

André Aciman Quote: “Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”

2. “Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”

3. “All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”

4. “I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “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 admire and want to help along. And we’ll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”

5. “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 admire and want to help along. And we’ll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief – or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

6. “At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief – or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “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 compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers.”

7. “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 compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “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 forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”

8. “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 forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I’d lost track of and sloughed off in America. My shadow self, my picture of Dorian Gray, my mad brother in the attic, my Mr Hyde, my very, very rough draft. Me unmasked, unchained, unleashed, unfinished: me untrammeled, me in rags, me enraged. Me without books, without finish, without a green card. Me with a Kalashnikov.”

9. “Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I’d lost track of and sloughed off in America. My shadow self, my picture of Dorian Gray, my mad brother in the attic, my Mr Hyde, my very, very rough draft. Me unmasked, unchained, unleashed, unfinished: me untrammeled, me in rags, me enraged. Me without books, without finish, without a green card. Me with a Kalashnikov.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “Seeing you here is like waking from a twenty-year coma... Your face in the mirror is as white as Rip Van Winkle’s. But here’s the catch: you’re still twenty years younger than those gathered around you, which is why I can be twenty-four in a second – I am twenty-four.”

10. “Seeing you here is like waking from a twenty-year coma... Your face in the mirror is as white as Rip Van Winkle’s. But here’s the catch: you’re still twenty years younger than those gathered around you, which is why I can be twenty-four in a second – I am twenty-four.”

— André Aciman

André Aciman Quote: “I knock on the glass panel, softly. My heart is beating like crazy. I am afraid of nothing, so why be so frightened? Why? Because everything scares me, because both fear and desire are busy equivocating with each other, with me, I can’t even tell the difference between wanting him to open the door and hoping he’s stood me up.”

11. “I knock on the glass panel, softly. My heart is beating like crazy. I am afraid of nothing, so why be so frightened? Why? Because everything scares me, because both fear and desire are busy equivocating with each other, with me, I can’t even tell the difference between wanting him to open the door and hoping he’s stood me up.”

— André Aciman

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