Something about
" I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, 'I'm in love with Celia St. James!' and let them crucify me for it. That's what I should have done. And now that I don't have her, and I have more money than I could ever use in this lifetime, and my name is cemented in Hollywood history, and I know how hollow it is, I am kicking myself for every single second I chose it over loving her proudly."
and
“And why would you go and beat the holy crap out of a guy who hurt him? Why would you do that? All of your instincts, Ari, all of them, tell me something. You love that boy.”
I kept staring down at the table.
“I think you love him more than you can bear."
...“What am I going to do? I’m so ashamed.” “Ashamed of what?” my mother said. “Of loving Dante?”
“I’m a guy. He’s a guy. It’s not the way things are supposed to be. Mom—”
...
"How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?"
and
"I am not ashamed to stand here today where presidents
have stood and say that I love him, the same as Jack loved Jackie, the same as
Lyndon loved Lady Bird. Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a
partner with whom they will share it, whom the American people will hold beside
them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice."
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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.
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I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself. That sucked. I had serious problems.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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So i just finished the Ari and Dante sequel and here are my thoughts
SPOILERS DUH
Things I loved
susie Byrd love her character
Ari’s growth , I love him so much I’m so proud
Ari’s father, 🥲
Ari coming out to Gina and susie
Ari facing his brother ( I was so nervous reading this )
Ari and Dante camping trip
The kiss in the rain
Cassandra and Ari’s friendship
Sophocles 🥺
Ari writing Dante’s name in uit journal every time
Dantes painting for Ari
The museum kiss parallel
Ari’s mom becoming teacher of the year
The relationship between Ari and Dante’s parents
Cassandras speech at the graduation
Quotes: the kitten had fucking opened his eyes. I can see, Dante i can see.
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. - Dante
Too young ? Tell that too my fucking heart.
Sometimes I just want to be. Just to be. You know?
How strange and how beautiful, to be sitting in a car and singing with your father
A father and a boy who had lived in different countries in the same house
You know life isn’t easy for everybody. Life isn’t easy for anybody
I hate my life, been there done that
Things i missed
a healthy talk between Ari and Dante at the end, the didn’t acknowledge what happened and they didn’t actually talk it out
More Ari Dante happiness most of their scenes reminded us why they couldn’t be together or that the world didn’t accept them
I missed Dante, I feel like we didn’t see much of him and when we did it wasn’t often in a positive light
I missed Dante growing, Ari grew so much as a person where I feel like Dante kind of stayed the same and slowly faded into the background
Things i didn’t like
the way the ending came to be
So much sadness, the sad things that happened really overshadowed the good stuff for me personally
The balance between happy things and sad things. I understand that life isn’t perfect and not always happy but so much sadness was in this book and feel like there wasn’t much room left for joy. Like it would be nice to have a 60/40 ratio of happyvs sad but it just didn’t feel like that for me
Overal i rate this book 3,6/5
and Ari and Dante will always have a very special place in my heart
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One of my favourite quotes from the second book, really felt this in my heart
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I don't think ppl in my life know how bad I need the Ari i and Dante movie to not suck.
Like that book had too much of an impact of me I will actually be so sad
I don't think it will suck I have hope but
Yes i was fourteen idc the profound impact that shit had on me was insane
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i'm not even done with Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe and i'm ALREADY crying. nobody touch me. i need some space to think about.... them. oh fuck now i'm sobbing uncontrollably.
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“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. There is no room for us because it has already been decided that exile is our only choice. I have been reading the definition for that world and I don’t want that word to live inside me. We came into the world because our parents wanted us. And I have thought about this and I know in my heart that our parents brought us into this world for the purest of reasons. But no matter how much they love us, their love will never move the world one inch closer to welcoming us. The world is full of people who are stupid and mean and cruel and violent and ugly. I think that there is such a thing as truth in the world that we live in, but I sure as hell don’t know what it is. And there’s a shitload of assholes who think it’s okay to hate anybody they want to hate.”
- aristotle and dante dive into the waters of the sea
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March has been a long month for me, and I've got a lot on my mind that I have to figure out in the coming days and weeks. But here's my March theme, I've really enjoyed drawing a little something each week and keeping it low pressure and I loved my February flowers but the March monstera leaf has brought me happiness too.
It took me ages to finish Aristotle and Dante (and I'm not sure I liked it very much) and I put off opening my March book until I finished it and like yeah I could maybe finish it before the end of the month in like three days but I'm not pressuring myself to or anything. The book is Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, which I've thought about starting a few times and never made it more than a dozen pages in so here goes kids.
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