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“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.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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“I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me. It was a nice thought. It was something Dante would have thought. I felt another drop and then another. A kiss. A kiss. And then another kiss.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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“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.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and over What's so great about a life that's sober? There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun. I'm tired of searching for words in the sky. All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.”

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Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante and Legs falling in love with each other, Dante's mom and dad remembering something about their youth as they examined my truck, and me, the proud owner. I had something of value– even if it was just a truck that brought out a sweet nostalgia in people. It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep that photograph forever.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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“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.”

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Book:Aristóteles y Dante se sumergen en las aguas del mundo (Edición española)
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“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.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
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