I Dont > I's Quotes

“I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me. It was a nice thought. It was something Dante would have thought. I felt another drop and then another. A kiss. A kiss. And then another kiss.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“When something gets broken, it can be fixed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“How strange to have a body. Sometimes it felt that way. Strange.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You’re different.”
“How?”
“I don’t know. You’re acting different.”
“Weird?”
“Yeah, weird. But in a good way.”
“Good,” I said, “I’ve always wanted to be weird in a good way.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Pensé que podía ser una gran cosa ser aire.
Podría ser algo y nada a la vez. Podría ser necesario y también invisible. Todos me necesitarían y nadie sería capaz de verme.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“El problema con mi vida era que se le había ocurrido a alguien más”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Nothing. It’s just that most smart people are perfect shits.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I hated living in the small and claustrophobic atmosphere of my house. It didn’t feel like home anymore. I felt like an unwanted guest.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such
an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Leseprobe - Aristoteles und Dante entdecken die Geheimnisse des Universums

“[He] was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Mi mamá y mi papá estaban tomados de la mano. Me pregunté cómo era eso, tomarse de la mano de alguien. Apuesto a que a veces podías encontrar todos los misterios del universo en la mano de alguien.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“We looked at each other. We didn’t really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.”
― Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He didn’t say anything. And then I heard him crying. So I just let him cry. There was nothing I could do. Except listen to his pain. I could do that. I could hardly stand it. But I could do that. Just listen to his pain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Algo sucedió dentro de mí mientras contemplaba el vasto universo. A través de ese telescopio, el mundo estaba más cerca y grande de lo que jamás hubiera imaginado. Y todo era tan hermoso y abrumador, que me hizo consciente de que había algo dentro de mí que importaba.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“It was a small idea. But at least the idea was mine.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“See, the thing about guys is that I didn’t really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don’t know why, not exactly. I just, I don’t know, I just didn’t belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled. "You kiss me."
I placed my hand on the back of his neck. I pulled him toward me. And kissed him. I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And he kept kissing me back.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e

I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last.”
― Rachel Vail, If We Kiss

“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone