Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“You matter more to the universe than you will ever know.”
“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.”
“I thought he was only going to teach me how to swim in the waters of this swimming pool. Instead, he taught me how to dive into the waters of life.”
“Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurt so much?" "If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
“Cowards start wars, and the brave fight them.”
“The world would be a better place if everyone did more thinking and less talking. There might be a lot less hatred.”
“Sometimes you’ll feel the loneliness of exile. And sometimes you’ll feel the happiness of belonging.”
“Sometimes I think that I’m nothing but a lot of emotions all tangled up in my body and I don’t know how to untangle them.”
“I'm sorry that the world is what it is. But you'll learn how to survive - and you'll have to create a space where you're safe and learn to trust the right people. And you will find happiness.”
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