Katarina

“He was like a heart that was beating in every pore of my body. His heart was beating in my heart. His heart was beating in my head. His heart was beating in my stomach. His heart was beating in my legs. His heart was beating in my arms, my hands, my fingers. His heart was beating in my tongue, my lips. No wonder I was trembling.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“it seemed the sanest and most logical course: if the world was on fire, you might as well burn bright.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“You matter more to the universe than you will ever know.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Stories were living inside us. I think we were born to tell our stories. After we died, our stories would survive. Maybe it was our stories that fed the universe the energy it needed to keep on giving life.

Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World