Ari And Dante Quotes

“..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Yes, it was true that words could lead to understanding. But they could lead to misunderstandings, too. Words were imperfect.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You're the rain and you're the desert and you're the erase that's making the word 'loneliness' disappear”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You and Dante are going to map out a new world”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You were looking for me,' he said. I looked at him. 'In your dream. You were looking for me.'
'I'm always looking for you,' I whispered”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Uno de los secretos del universo era que nuestros instintos a veces eran más fuertes que nuestras mentes.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“All this time I had 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. From the minute I had met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“And then I knew, I finally knew, about this thing called desire”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Making a map of the new world. Wouldn't that be something fantastically, amazingly beautiful? The world according to Ari and Dante. Dante and me waking through a world, a world nobody had ever seen, and mapping out all the rivers and valleys and creating paths so that those who came after us wouldn't have to be afraid - and they wouldn't get lost. How beautiful was that?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Maybe Ari plus Dante equalled love, but it also equalled complicated. It also equalled playing hide-and-seek with the world. But there was a difference between the art of running and the art of running away”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“I was going to ask you to marry me. But they won't let us do that”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We'll spend our time writing our names on the map of the city of love”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we’re in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room. There is no room for us because it has already been decided that exile is our only choice.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We fell into a silence as if there were no words to say what we had to say. I knew he wanted to say he was sorry. And I wanted to say that I was sorry too. But it was so unnecessary to acknowledge the hurt because the hurt was gone now. And it was unnecessary to say 'I love you' at that moment because sometimes it felt cheap to say such an obvious thing - so it was better to keep the silence because it was so rare and so sacred. I felt him take my hand in his, a hand that held all the secrets of the universe...”
― Ari Mendoza, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World