The best phrases of Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe, a youth novel by the author Benjamín Alire Sáenz published in 2012. It tells the story of two friends who support each other to have experiences and learn about the world and the universe.
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-Another secret of the universe: sometimes the pain was like a storm that came from nowhere. The clearest of summers could end in a storm. It could end with lightning and thunder. –Ari.
-I don't need the rain. I need you –Ari.
-One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. –Ari.
-The words are not things that we can control. Not always. –Ari.
-Scars. Signs that you have been hurt. Signs that you have healed. –Ari.
-It is not surprising that I stopped keeping a diary. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. –Ari.
He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside him. –Ari.
-How could I ever be ashamed of loving Dante Quintana? –Ari.
"Has anyone ever told you that you weren't normal?"
"Is that something I should aspire to?" -Dante.
-You are not. You are not normal. Where did you come from?
-My parents had sex one night.-Dante.
-Everyone was always turning into something more. –Ari.
-Maybe we live between hurting ourselves and healing. –Ari.
-Being careful with people and with words was a beautiful and extraordinary thing. –Ari.
-The loneliness of a man was much greater than the loneliness of a child. –Ari.
-I didn't know what to do with that information. So I just kept it to myself. That's what he did with everything. Save my things. –Ari.
-Sometimes, all you have to do is tell the truth. They won't believe you. After that they will leave you alone. –Ari.
-I didn't care, because the only thing that mattered to me is that Dante's voice felt very real. –Ari.
-I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They don't know enough to hide their feelings. –Ari.
-Someday. I hated those words. –Ari.
-I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence consume me completely. –Ari.
-We all have our own struggles. –Ari.
-I love swimming… and you. (…) Swim and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most. -Dante.
-Feeling sorry for myself was like an art. I think part of me liked to do that. –Ari.
-He had learned to hide what he felt. No, that's not true. There is no learning involved. I was born knowing how to hide what I felt. –Ari.
-Sometimes when people speak, they don't always tell the truth. –Ari.
-As far as I'm concerned, the sun could have melted the blue of the sky. Then heaven could have been as miserable as me. –Ari.
-Laughing was another of the secrets of the universe. –Ari.
-I knew a part of him would never be the same. –Ari.
-Maybe tears are something you get sick of. Just like the flu. –Ari.
-I wanted to feel those words while saying them. Words could be like food, they felt like something in the mouth, they tasted like something. –Ari.
-Everyone expected something from me. Something he just couldn't give them. –Ari.
-The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm, and I wanted to be the world and feel that way. –Ari.
-Love was always something very heavy for me. Something that I always had to carry. –Ari.
-Birds exist to teach us things about the sky. -Dante.
-Typical, I didn't know what to say, so I didn't say anything. –Ari.
-Perhaps dogs were one of the secrets of the universe. –Ari.
-I was wondering if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe this big yes, but not so beautiful. –Ari.
-That's my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not sure I want to return the favor. –Ari.
-If we studied birds, perhaps we could learn to be free. –Ari.
-People talk to dogs. Not because they understand. If not maybe because they understand enough. –Ari.
-I had a rule: it is better to be bored with yourself than to be bored with someone else. I always lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I don't have friends. –Ari.
-The problem with trying not to think about something is that you end up thinking even more about it. –Ari.
-The worst part about going crazy is that when you're not crazy anymore, you just don't know what to think of yourself. –Ari.
-I was wondering what it was like to hold someone by the hand. I bet you can sometimes find all the secrets of the universe in someone's hand. –Ari.
-I don't always have to understand the people I love. "Ari's mom."
-I had a feeling that something was wrong with me. I guess it was a mystery even to me. –Ari.
-I changed my name to Ari, and if I changed a letter, my name was Air (air). Maybe it's a good thing to be the air. It could be something and nothing at the same time. It could be something necessary, and also something invisible. –Ari.
-The Ari that used to be no longer existed. And the Ari I was becoming? It still did not exist. –Ari.
-The smiles are like that. They come and go. –Ari.
-It seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without darkness. –Ari.
-There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys. –Ari.
-I think you should confront them. You have to sit them down and make them tell you. Make them adults. -Dante.
-Some day I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe. –Ari.
-I hated volunteering. The problem with my life is that it was always someone else's idea. –Ari.
-I am sure that many times you can find the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. –Ari.
-Maybe it was something terrible, keeping a war a secret. –Ari.
-I've always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing. –Ari.
-The summer sun was not for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. –Ari.
-I couldn't understand how you can live in such a bad world without getting infected. How could a boy live without evil? –Ari.
-I'm always looking for you. –Ari.
-I decided that maybe we were leaving ourselves alone a lot. Leaving us alone was killing us. –Ari.