Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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.

You’re the rain and you’re the desert and you’re the eraser that’s making the word “loneliness” disappear.

My love for him is silent. There are a thousand things living in that silence.”

My hobby was feeling my whole body tremble when I thought of him.

You couldn’t cross out desire when it lived in your body.

I don’t like it when you get mad at me. It makes me feel bad. I don’t know what else to say about this. I have to think about this some more. You getting angry isn’t part of the way I thought of you. But you shouldn’t have to fit in my definition of you. I don’t want you to live in the prison of my thoughts. I’m the only one who should be living there.

I know you don’t have the answers to my questions. But I think you ask those questions too.

I always ran past Dante’s house.

My name is Mr. Art Angel,

Ari is a Grimes fan???