Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole."
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"I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"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
"I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn’t do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That’s the way he was."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Do you think it will always be this way?”“What?”“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know,” I said. “Tomorrow."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely"
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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