Marizela

“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.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we're in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“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.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We all have to learn to be brave. We can't allow them to take away our love.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World