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101 " Between the living and the dying is the loving. 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. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
102 " Cicatrices. Una señal de que habías sido herido. Una señal de que habías sanado. "
103 " My mom said that we will always live between exile and belonging. Sometimes you’ll feel the loneliness of exile. And sometimes you’ll feel the happiness of belonging. "
104 " Mom, why didn’t anybody tell me that love hurts so much?”“If I had told you, would it have changed anything? "
105 " It's amazing the capacity we have to lie to ourselves. "
106 " My love for him is silent. There are a thousand things living in that silence. "
107 " As we drove away, I asked Sam, "Where would we be without women?""We'd be in hell," Sam said, "that's where we'd be. "
108 " What is this thing called desire? "
109 " Before every school year begins, I feel like crawling under my bed and staying there. I don’t know what it is about the whole school thing that makes me feel anxious. I always feel like I’ve thrown my summers away "
110 " Você é a chuva e você é o deserto e você é a borracha que está apagando a palavra “solidão”. "
111 " 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. There is no room for us because it has already been decided that exile is our only choice. I have been reading the definition for that world and I don’t want that word to live inside me. "
112 " Now my head is cluttered with words and cluttered with love and cluttered with too many thoughts. I wonder if people like me ever get to know what peace is like. "
113 " Those people marching in San Francisco aren’t perverts, they’re citizens, and their own are dying in an epidemic that’s killed more people than were killed in the war he and I fought in. And the government isn’t lifting a finger to help. Why? Because they’re gay and I guess to some that means they’re not people. But when we got in a war, they told us that we were fighting to defend the freedoms that we have. They didn’t tell us we were only fighting for the people who agreed with whatever the hell our politics were. "
114 " ¿Sabes qué? Ari, me cuesta trabajo caminar junto a ti y no querer tomarte la mano "
115 " —Nunca seremos suficientemente mexicanos. Nunca seremos suficientemente estadounidenses. Y nunca seremos suficientemente hetero. "
116 " And then I knew, I finally knew, about this thing called desire "
117 " You're the rain and you're the desert and you're the erase that's making the word 'loneliness' disappear "
118 " You and Dante are going to map out a new world "
119 " Making a map of the new world. Wouldn't that be something fantastically, amazingly beautiful? The world according to Ari and Dante. Dante and me waking through a world, a world nobody had ever seen, and mapping out all the rivers and valleys and creating paths so that those who came after us wouldn't have to be afraid - and they wouldn't get lost. How beautiful was that? "
120 " Maybe Ari plus Dante equalled love, but it also equalled complicated. It also equalled playing hide-and-seek with the world. But there was a difference between the art of running and the art of running away "