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“There was nothing else to do except to live”

I try not to think of the name that had been written on my heart. I try not to whisper his name”.

“Sometimes, Ari Mendoza, when you write the story of who you are, you have a tendency to edit out a lot of the scenes that make you look good. I have a suggestion for you. Stop doing that. Just stop”.

“The world, the universe, and Aristotle and Dante”

“There may not have been a lot of happiness in the kitchen that night. But there was a lot of love. And maybe that was even better”

“We had been such strangers to each other, a father and a boy who had lived in different countries in the same house. He had been an unsolvable mystery. And though there were some mysteries about him that I will never solve, there was something intimate between us now. And he felt like home”

“Tito, you loved that bear.

I used to talk to him. He never talked back. I think that’s why I loved him.”

“Maybe I’m not brave at all. Maybe I’m just tired of being afraid and maybe I’m just being selfish. I’m not sure I’m looking for my brother anymore. Maybe I never was. I think I’m just trying to find a piece of me that I lost”

“You know, we’re not only have to be smart enough to be cartographers. We also have to be brave enough to dive into waters that may not be very friendly”

“I was learning a lot of things about living in the country of friendship. I liked living in that country. I liked it very much”

“How could I be someone’s friend when I didn’t know how to be one? It’s not I was trying to make any of you invisible, I was trying to make me invisible.”