Find Me Quotes

“Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“As a French poet once said, some people smoke to put nicotine in their veins, others to put a cloud between them and others”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“I never told you that, Dad, but I was drunk out of my mind one night, I had just vomited in front of the statue of the Pasquino and couldn't have been more dazed in my life yet here as I leaned against this very wall, I knew, drunk as I was, that this, with Oliver holding me, was my life, that everything that had come beforehand with others was not even a rough sketch or the shadow of a draft of what was happening to me. And now, ten years later, when I look at this wall under this old streetlamp, I am back with him and I swear to you, nothing has changed. In thirty, forty, fifty years I will feel no differently. I have met many women and more men in my life, but what is watermarked on this very wall overshadows everyone I've known. When I come to be here, I can be alone or with people, with you for instance, but I am always with him. If I stood for an hour staring at this wall, I'd be with him for an hour. If I spoke to this wall, it would speak back."
"What would it say?" asked Miranda, totally taken in by the thought of Elio and the wall.
"What would it say? Simple: 'Look for me, find me.'"
"And what do you say?"
"I say the same thing. 'Look for me, find me.' And we were both happy. Now you know.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“I will be everywhere you look but nowhere to be found and that will be my revenge.”
― Aurora Raine

“Men!" she finally said, as though that one word summed up all the shortcomings most women are willing to overlook and learn to put up with and ultimately forgive in the men they hope to love for the rest of their lives even when they know they won't”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Living means dying with regrets stuck in your craw. As the French poet says, 'Le temps d'apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard', by the time we learn to live, it's already too late.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Death, contrary to what everyone tells you, is not a part of life”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Men were like matches: they caught fire and were shaken off and dropped in the first ashtray that came her way”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“... time, as he'd said before we hugged and went to sleep so late that night, time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“You have given me days that justify the years I’ve been without him.”
― Aciman Andre

“Some people leave us scuttled and damaged. In my case, I'm the one who did the scuttling, yet I'm the one who never recovered.”
― Aciman Andre

“You’ll find me at the narthex
Dreaming of praying at the apex -”
― Isbelle Razors

“Can you please come find me? I'm ready to die in your arms.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver