Andre Aciman Quotes

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I've always felt more comfortable in the company of women, and as far as girlfriends go, they've each been a learning experience. You meet someone at a certain point in your life, then break apart, but you always share that time.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

Love makes a good eye squint.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with sex. It's two different things. Being in love is the happy part. I was teasing my gentleman, "We know that you're in love when you cook for us." It's true. When men cook for you, they're in love.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.