Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness. Last Night I Sang to the Monster

2. How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

3. I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

4. Try it again," I said. "Kiss me.""No," he said."Kiss me.""No," And then he smiled. "You kiss me."I placed my hand on the back of his neck. I pulled him toward me. And kissed him. I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And he kept kissing me back. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

5. Dante, Dante, Dante. 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. Trembling, trembling, trembling. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

6. Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me. Last Night I Sang to the Monster

7. The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

8. We walked into the forever white sand dunes, and soon we were far away from all the people in the world. Everyone had disappeared from the universe except the young man whose hand I was holding, and everything that had ever been born and everything that had ever died existed where his hand touched mine. Everything the blue ofthe sky, the rain in the clouds, the white of the sand, the water in the oceans, all the languages of all the nations, and all the broken hearts that had learned to beat in their brokenness. We didn't talk. This was the quietest moment I had ever been in.Even my busy brain--it was quiet. So quiet that I felt that I was in a church. And the thought entered my head that my love for Dante was holy, not because I was holy but because what I felt for him was pure. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

9. 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. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World