I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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❝ Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a  s t o r m  that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder . . ❞

( insp . )

┊I’m gonna climb on top your ivory tower; I’ll hold your hand and then we’ll jump right out;
┊we’ll be falling, falling but that’s okay; ‘cause I’ll be right here.   x

    From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him.
I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it.

I wanted to tell them that I’d never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren’t meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn’t have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. ❝ Dante’s my f r i e n d . ❞

  — aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamín alire sáenz

summer had come and gone. summer had come and gone. and the world was ending.

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

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I wanted to tell them that I’d never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren’t meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn’t have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. “Dante’s my friend.”

― benjamin alire sáenz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz