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“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.”

Life Honesty

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“I liked the way he looked at me. I thought he was the kindest man in the world. Maybe everybody was kind. Maybe even my father. But Mr. Quintana was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. Dante was just like him.”

Life Kindness Masculinity

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Living is an art, not a science.”

Life Art Alive Living

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I always thought of men as being hard—maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn’t. I don’t know where he’d learned it, but it wasn’t something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn’t. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn’t know which one of us had it worse”

Thinking Men Love Life Love Quotes Man

Author:Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“What do you do in a pool when you don’t know how to swim? Learn. I guess that was the answer. I had managed to teach my body to stay afloat on water. Somehow, I’d stumbled on some principal of physics. And the best part of the whole thing was that I’d made the discovery all on my own.”

Life Learning Discovery

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Something happens inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and - I don’t know - it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered”

World Life Beautiful Imagine Thoughts On Life

Author:Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.”

Life Suffering Quotes Recovering

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn.”

Life Reason Math Truth Of Life

Book:He Forgot to Say Goodbye

Source: He Forgot to Say Goodbye

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed. Had I been hurt? Had I healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”

Life Healing Scars

Author:Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”

Life Inspirational Summer

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

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseRelated source material

Last Night I Sang to the MonsterRelated source material

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the WorldRelated source material

The Inexplicable Logic of My LifeRelated source material

He Forgot to Say GoodbyeRelated source material

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