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“How was I suppose to know him when he didn’t let me?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Reading my own words embarassed the hell out of me. I had to be the world’s biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was?”
― 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

“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I have 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. […] I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. […] We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe