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141 " This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to find 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 forgotten them without even knowing it "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
142 " I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable. "
143 " 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
144 " We studied each other for a moment as I lay in bed."You were looking for me," he said.I looked at him."In your dream. You were looking for me.""I'm always looking for you," I whispered. "
145 " I wondered if he had really held me and I wanted to tell him that I didn't hate him, it was just that I didn't understand him, didn't understand who he was and I wanted to, I wanted so much to understand. "
146 " He started to leave my room. He hesitated for a moment. He had his back to me. "Have you had any more bad dreams?" "I always have bad dreams," I said. "Even when you're not sick?" "Yeah." He stood at my doorway. He turned around and faced me. "Are you always lost?" "In most of them, yeah." "And are you always trying to find me?" "Mostly I think I'm trying to find me, Dad. "
147 " Sometimes, when people talk, they don't always tell the truth. "
148 " Everything was spinning but when I closed my eyes the room was motionless and dark. And then the dreams came.Birds were falling from the sky. Sparrows. Millions and millions of sparrows. They were falling like rain and they were hitting me as they fell and I had their blood all over me and I couldn't find a place to protect myself. Their beaks were breaking my skin like arrows. "
149 " There are some words I'll never learn to spell. "
150 " He hadn't left any of the stretches that he'd done of me. But he did leave a sketch of my rocking chair. It was perfect. A rocking chair against the bare walls of my room. He'd captured the afternoon light streaming into the room, the way the shadows fell on the chair and gave it depth and made it appear as if it was something more than an inanimate object. There was something sad and solitary about the sketch and I wondered if that's the way he saw the world or if that's the way he saw my world.I starred at the sketch for a long time. It scared me. Because there was something true about it. "
151 " Ari?” My father’s voice was soft. “Ari, Ari, Ari. You’re fighting this war in the worst possible way.” “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. "
152 " Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many people like to talk. Sharkey, for example. If talking is so good for you, what the hell is Sharkey doing here? The guy tears me up. Talking does not heal you. Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we’d all just be quiet. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Last Night I Sang to the Monster
153 " When you are standing all alone,” she whispered, “the people who notice—those are the people who stand by your side "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
154 " I didn't feel threatened by the angry, unpredictable weather. Somehow, I felt safe and protected "
155 " Hay una voz en el universo que guarda la verdad de todos aquellos que caminan sobre la Tierra. Creo que nacimos por razones que no comprendemos... y a nosotros nos corresponde descubrir esas razones. Esta es tu única tarea. Si eres tan valiente para sentarte a escuchar la voz del universo en el silencio que te habita, entonces siempre sabrás lo que importa... y también sabrás que le importas mas al universo de lo que jamás podrás saber. "
156 " Si tenemos mucha suerte el universo nos enviará a la gente que necesitamos para sobrevivir "
157 " Quiero decir ¿Cuándo empezamos a sentir que el mundo nos pertenece?...No lo se, le dije, mañana. "
158 " No necesito que nadie me diga como vivir mi fe "
159 " Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes. "
160 " Peleo conmigo mismo. Lo sé. Por momentos quiero recordar. Al minuto siguiente quiero vivir en la tierra del olvido. Al siguiente quiero sentir. Luego, no quiero volver a sentir nunca más. Después, quiero aprender a cantar. Al siguiente minuto quiero odiar a Rafael por recordarme que hay canciones en el mundo. "