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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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 a...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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 ...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe