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“You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are.”

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Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat.”

Anxiety Overwhelmed Parents And Teenagers

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“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.”

Love Fight Secrets Of The Universe Private Wars

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“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.”

Connections Tunnels Dysfunctional Families

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“It's like my mom and dad created a whole new world for themselves. I live in their new world. But they understand the old world, the world they came from—and I don't. I don't belong anywhere. That's the problem.”

Belonging Immigrant Parents

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“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.”

Love Love Quotes Poems Lgbtq Aristotle And Dante

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

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

“EVERYWHERE I TURNED, EVERYWHERE I went, everybody had something to say about love. Mothers, fathers, teachers, singers, musicians, poets, writers, friends. It was like the air. It was like the ocean. It was like the sun. It was like the leaves on a tree in summer. It was like the rain that broke the drought. It was the soft sound of the water flowing through a stream. And it was the sound of the crashing waves against the shore in a storm. Love was why we fought all our battles. Love was what we lived and died for. Love was what we dreamed of as we slept. Love was the air we wanted to breathe in when we woke to greet the day. Love was a torch you carried to lead you out of darkness. Love took you out of exile and carried you to a country called Belonging.”

Love Quotes

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

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

“Love didn’t just have something to do with my heart—it had something to do with my body. And my body had never felt so alive. And then I knew, I finally knew about this thing called desire.”

Love Quotes

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

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

“You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.”

Life Lessons Driving Lessons

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards.”

Life Phases Going Through Aristotale

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“-Se viene todo contra ti: el viento y los truenos y los rayos y la lluvia, te arrollan. Crees que el mundo se va a acabar. Es un momento apocalíptico y abrumador. Y luego, como si nada, se termina. Y el mundo vuelve a la tranquilidad. El aire huele limpio y nuevo; al respirarlo, quieres volver a estar vivo.”

Live Tranquilidad Vivo Abrumador Apocaliptico

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“El mundo era tan silencioso. Había una barrera entre el mundo y yo. Y pensé por un momento que el mundo nunca me quiso y ahora estaba tomando una oportunidad para deshacerse de mí.”

Introspection Reflexión

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Tal vez ahí estaba la clave para resolver el misterio: descifrar que demonios quería mi monstruo antes de que me rompiera en pedazos.”

Break Monsters Monstruo Romper

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Por alguna razón, el hecho de que ella fuera tan dispersa me ayudaba a mi a no serlo. No tenía sentido, pero lo que había entre Sam y yo, pues, tenía una lógica propia.”

Cariño Unión Compañía

Book:The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Source: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“-¿Sigues teniendo dificultades con Dios? -Bueno, el los hizo a Rafael y a ti ¿no? -Así es. -Entonces no tengo problemas con él. -¿Con eso te basta? -Es un comienzo. Era un comienzo. Si, si lo era.”

God Problem Dios Espiritualidad Problema

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”

Love

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”

Love Inspirational Lgbt Dante Ari

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“If you don't remember something, it doesn't hurt.”

Pain Hurt

Book:The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Source: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“See the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrasssed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of the assholes.”

Reality

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“It was that word “hate” that killed him. And that word is going to kill us all if we don’t learn how to fight it.”

Hate

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

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

“It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.”

Friendship Rain

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseRelated source material

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