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“It made me mad that I’d felt like I’d betrayed my family by mentioning my brother to Dante. It didn’t feel good. There were so many ghosts in our house […] And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn’t even met yet. They were there. Lying in wait.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“What do you have against adults?’
‘They too have many ideas about who we are. Or who we should be.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Because when you do something, you have to know exactly what you’re doing.’
‘No one knows exactly what they’re doing’ I said.”
― 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