Ari And Dante Quotes

#1. Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Sri Aurobindo

#2. Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard

#3. I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. 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.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. I wonder if he'd been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. ..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.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.

Gloria Naylor

#9. Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.
"I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die," Seregil gasped.
"Twice is my limit," croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.

Lynn Flewelling

#10. The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Evan G. Galbraith

#12. My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. What do you love, Ari? What do you really love?"
"I love the desert. God, I love the desert."
"It's so lonely."
"Is it?"
Dante didn't understand. I was unknowable.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#14. You belong everywhere you go. That's just how you are.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. There are worst things in life than kissing boys

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!

Antonia Michaelis

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz