Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable."
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"I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I used to be didn’t exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn’t exist yet."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"There are worst things in life than kissing boys."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ... They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad."You should ask for help," he said."I don't know how to do that, either."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."No," he said."Kis"
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I wished it was raining," he said."I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give. So I renamed myself Ari. If I switched the letter, my name was Air. I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I guess I didn't have it so bad. Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either. I was good in a fight. So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way. And then Dante came along."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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