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41 " When you are standing all alone,” she whispered, “the people who notice—those are the people who stand by your side. Those are the people who love you. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
42 " Sometimes I had beautiful words living inside of me and I just couldn’t push those words out so that other people could see they were there. "
43 " There are no reasons to hate other people—especially other kinds of people. We make up reasons why other people are less human than we are. We make up reasons and then we believe those reasons and then those reasons become true and they are true because now we believe they are facts and we even forget where it all started—with a reason we made up. "
44 " There are moments in your life that you will always remember. "
45 " Sometimes telling someone you like them is a helluva lot better than telling someone you love them. "
46 " The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we're in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room. "
47 " I wondered if I was strong enough or good enough to love a world that hated me "
48 " No one asks to be born. And no one wants to die. We don’t bring ourselves into the world, and when it’s time for us to leave, the decision will not be ours to make. But what we do with the time in between the day we are born and the day we die, that is what constitutes a human life. You will have to make choices—and those choices will map out the shape and course of your life. We are all cartographers—all of us. We all want to write our names on the map of the world. "
49 " You're the rain and you're the desert and you're the eraser that's making the word “loneliness” disappear "
50 " Merry Christmas, Ari.” “Merry Christmas, Dante.” “Someday we’ll spend Christmas together.” “Someday. "
51 " I have felt a change in me that began the day I met you. And I don't even think I can put into words or map out the changes in me since that day. I make for a terrible cartographer. The way I think and the way I see the world - even the way I talk - have changed. It's as if I was walking in a pair of shoes that fit so tight on me because my feet had grown. And then it finally occurred to me that I needed a new pair of shoes - a pair of shoes that fit my feet. The first time I walked down the street wearing those shoes, I realized how much it had hurt, how much pain I had been in, when I did something as simple as walking. It doesn't hurt anymore to walk. That's what it feels like, Dante, to walk in the changes that have occurred in me since I met you. I may not be the definition of a happy guy. But it doesn't hurt anymore to be me. "
52 " You taught me how to swim in stormy waters--- Then you left me here to drown "
53 " It’s easy to tell a dog you love her. It’s not so easy to say those words to the people around you "
54 " loving someone was different from falling in love with them "
55 " You taste like the rain,” he said. “I love the rain more than anything.”“I know. I want to be the rain.”“You are the rain, Dante.” And I wanted to say 'You’re the rain and you’re thedesert and you’re the eraser that’s making the word “loneliness” disappear. "
56 " People say that love is like a kind of heaven. I was beginning to think that love is a kind of hell. "
57 " Happiness. What the hell did that mean? It had to be more than the absence of sadness. "
58 " The world I wanted to live in didn’t exist. And I was struggling to love the world I did live in. "
59 " Now is the only thing that’s real. Tomorrow is just an idea. "
60 " Friend” was a word that contained an entire universe. "