emmie sofia

“I thought of what my father had told me one summer day. I’d fallen down, and my knee was all scraped up and bleeding. We sat on the back porch, and he cleaned my wound and put a Band-Aid on it. The sky had cleared after a summer storm. I’d been crying, and he tried to get me to smile. “Your eyes are the color of sky. Did you know that?” I don’t know why I remembered this. Maybe it was because I knew he was telling me he loved me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“I do not understand these things. But that’s okay. Not understanding isn’t the same as misunderstanding.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“That’s how she loved people—​by feeding them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“That’s the way it was when you loved someone. You took them everywhere you went—​whether they were alive or not.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life