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“Merry Christmas, Ari.” “Merry Christmas, Dante.” “Someday we’ll spend Christmas together.” “Someday.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“I stare at Finlay and he stares back. We’re both fixed on each other, and as seconds pass, I realize neither of us is trying to pretend it’s anything other than a heart-struck gaze of mutual longing. Everything about his face is so ridiculously, staggeringly lovely to me, in this moment, I’m unable to speak.
Beauty isn’t an arrangement of features, even features as perfect as Finlay Hart’s, it’s a feeling. This is how it feels in the split second you suddenly become aware that you’re falling in love with someone. The click of a jigsaw’s last piece, the rainfall of coins in a jackpot slot machine, the right song striking up and your being swept away by its opening bars. That conviction of making complete sense of the universe, in one moment. Of course. You’re where I should be. You’re here.
“How are you?” Fin says to me, eventually, and we both break into broad smiles at the ludicrousness of having declared our feelings without saying a word. I can’t wait to talk to him properly, after we leave here. I can’t wait, full stop.”
― Mhairi McFarlane

“And if I tell myself that it’s okay enough times, maybe one day it really will be.”
― Garrett Curbow, Daughter of Light

“You don’t get extra credit for doing what you’re supposed to do.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World