aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe – Page 2

i was about time i did proper fanart for this great book

^{I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand.I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.}

annalightwood:

SWIMMING AND YOU: an ari and dante playlist. | listen here

qeiem:

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

cutie pies Dante Quintana and Ari Mendoza from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. I finished it a few days ago and wow……it is an AMAZING book. ~~i cried several times~~

notkatniss:

aminiyvrd:

have you ever experienced anything as pure and soft as the first time you read ari and dante

sterlingbutterfly:

Books I’ve Read in 2017 → Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 4/5.

Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.

marischaton:

I wanted to tell them that I’d never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren’t meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn’t have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. “Dante’s my friend.”

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamín Alire Sáenz (2012)

doesprongz:

Aristotle and Dante + Favorite Quotes

meruz:

All my youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for.

-W.S. Elliot

I read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe when I was in high school and tbh it was the first queer YA book I actually liked haha.