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“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I have 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. […] I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. […] We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I wondered what it was like, to be the kind of guy that cried over the death of a bird.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we’re thinking about things that we don’t know we’re thinking about- and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we’re like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That’s what dreams are.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“How was I suppose to know him when he didn’t let me?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe