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141 " Maybe the problem between me and my father was that we were both the same. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
142 " The funny thing is, I sometimes think my mother loves my father more than he loves her. Does that make sense?""Yeah, I guess so. Maybe. Is love a contest?""What does that mean?""Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters. "
143 " Words were not things you could control. Not always. "
144 " For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men. "
145 " It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me. "
146 " Bullshit, Ari. You have the harder rule to follow? Buffalo shit. Coyote shit. All you have to do is be loyal to the most brilliant guy you've ever met—which is like walking barefoot through the park. I, on the other hand, have to refrain from kissing the greatest guy in the universe—which is like walking barefoot on hot coals. "
147 " Yeah, I had all kinds of tragic reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. "
148 " Birds exist to teach us things about the sky. "
149 " Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending. "
150 " The worst part about going crazy is that when you're not crazy anymore, you just don't know what to think of yourself. "
151 " ..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. "
152 " Dogs don't censor themselves. Maybe animals were smarter than people. The dog was so happy. My mom and dad too. It felt good to know that they loved the dog, that they let themselves do that. And somehow it seemed that the dog helped us be a better family. "
153 " And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry. "
154 " Scars. A sign that you've been hurt. A sign that you have been healed. Had I been hurt? Had I been healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing. "
155 " It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph forever. "
156 " I loved the different rules of summer. "
157 " There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart. "
158 " And I knew that there was something about me that Mrs. Quintana saw and loved. And even though I felt it was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Not that she meant it to be a weight. But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry. "
159 " Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age. "
160 " Maybe it's a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself. "