Quotes From "Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe" By Unknown

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana? Unknown

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. Unknown

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street. Unknown

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence. Unknown

Ad we interviewing each other? Something like that. What position am I applying for? Best friend. I thought I already had the job. Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch. Unknown

Everyone was always becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old? Unknown

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life. Unknown

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder. Unknown

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad. Unknown

The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them. Unknown

Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely Unknown

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same. Unknown

I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism. Unknown

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Unknown

Do you think it will always be this way?”“ What?”“ I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know, ” I said. “Tomorrow. Unknown

The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea. Unknown

He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it. Unknown

So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. Unknown

All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad. Unknown

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us. Unknown

I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body. Unknown

..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE. Unknown

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility. Unknown

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be. Unknown

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe. Unknown

I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn’t do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That’s the way he was. Unknown

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one. Unknown

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more. Unknown

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. Unknown

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole. Unknown

I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are. Unknown

I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more. Unknown

I guess I didn't have it so bad. Maybe everybody didn't love me, but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated, either. I was good in a fight. So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way. And then Dante came along. Unknown

I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give. So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter, my name was Air.I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me. Unknown

Try it again, " I said. "Kiss me."" No, " he said." Kis Unknown

I wished it was raining, " he said." I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you. Unknown

The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break. Unknown

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help, " he said." I don't know how to do that, either. Unknown

I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand. Unknown

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life. Unknown

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. Unknown

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. Unknown

You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. Unknown

This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. 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. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars. Unknown

There are worst things in life than kissing boys. Unknown

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. Unknown

Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast? That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I used to be didn’t exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn’t exist yet. Unknown

Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe. Unknown

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe. Unknown