Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe #1)

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Laughter was another one of life’s mysteries.

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting. I just wasn’t that much of a con artist.

I wondered what it was like, to be the kind of guy that cried over the death of a bird.

I guess I had my own personal television in my brain.

I don’t where

Missing word "know"

“Yeah, well, moms and God generally get along pretty well.”

I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.

Her eyes were like the night sky in the desert.

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

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

Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer morning could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

I nodded, but there weren’t any words and the silent tears just kept running down my face like there was a river inside me.

Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.