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“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that I am reading. You're every poem I've ever loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“And I thought about how life was like the weather, it could change, and how Dante had moods that were pure as a blue sky and sometimes they were dark like a storm and that maybe, in some ways, he was just like me, and maybe that wasn’t such a good thing - but maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing either. People were complicated. I was complicated. Dante, he was complicated, too. People - they were included in the mysteries of the universe. What mattered is that he was an original. That he was beautiful and human and real and I loved him - and I didn’t think anything would ever change that.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Sometimes I had beautiful words living inside of me and I just couldn’t push those words out so that other people could see they were there.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We are at once far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough. We are powerful enough to radically reshape Earth's climate and biodiversity, but not powerful enough to choose how we reshape them.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet