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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2) QUOTES

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2) QUOTES

1 " I used to think that she [my mother] wanted me to be someone else. But it wasn’t her who wanted me to be someone else - it was me. She pushed and challenged me. And I didn’t like it. But it wasn’t because she wanted to ruin my day. She was, in some ways, like Dante’s mother. They both expected their sons to be decent human beings - and they were going to do everything they could to make that happen. And they sure as hell let us know when we weren’t getting it. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

2 " Dante, Dante, Dante. He was like a heart that was beating in every pore of my body. His heart was beating in my heart. His heart was beating in my head. His heart was beating in my stomach. His heart was beating in my legs. His heart was beating in my arms, my hands, my fingers. His heart was beating in my tongue, my lips. No wonder I was trembling. Trembling, trembling, trembling. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

3 " And I thought about how life was like the weather, it could change, and how Dante had moods that were pure as a blue sky and sometimes they were dark like a storm and that maybe, in some ways, he was just like me, and maybe that wasn’t such a good thing - but maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing either. People were complicated. I was complicated. Dante, he was complicated, too. People - they were included in the mysteries of the universe. What mattered is that he was an original. That he was beautiful and human and real and I loved him - and I didn’t think anything would ever change that. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

4 " Jaime and I have always believed that a parent holds a sacred office. And we will never abdicate or resign from that office just because things get difficult. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

5 " You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that I am reading. You're every poem I've ever loved. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

6 " 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)

7 " I didn't feel threatened by the angry, unpredictable weather. Somehow, I felt safe and protected "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

8 " 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. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

9 " Si tenemos mucha suerte el universo nos enviará a la gente que necesitamos para sobrevivir "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

10 " —and there weren't any words for what was happening, and even though words were important, they weren't everything. A lot of things happened outside the world of words. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

11 " Yes, it was true that words could lead to understanding. But they could lead to misunderstandings, too. Words were imperfect. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

12 " You matter more to the universe than you will ever know. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

13 " Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurt so much?"

"If I had told you, would it have changed anything? "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

14 " I thought he was only going to teach me how to swim in the waters of this swimming pool. Instead, he taught me how to dive into the waters of life. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

15 " Cowards start wars, and the brave fight them. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

16 " Stories were living inside us. I think we were born to tell our stories. After we died, our stories would survive. Maybe it was our stories that fed the universe the energy it needed to keep on giving life.

Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

17 " The world would be a better place if everyone did more thinking and less talking. There might be a lot less hatred. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

18 " Sometimes I think that I’m nothing but a lot of emotions all tangled up in my body and I don’t know how to untangle them. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

19 " Sometimes you’ll feel the loneliness of exile. And sometimes you’ll feel the happiness of belonging. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

20 " He was like a heart that was beating in every pore of my body. His heart was beating in my heart. His heart was beating in my head. His heart was beating in my stomach. His heart was beating in my legs. His heart was beating in my arms, my hands, my fingers. His heart was beating in my tongue, my lips. No wonder I was trembling. "

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)