Author of quotes: Benjamin Alire Saenz

Here, by the way, is the famous painting by Edward Hopper - Night Owls. I just fell in love with her. Sometimes it seems to me that we all look like the people in this picture. we are each immersed in our own Universe, full of pain and guilt - so distant and incomprehensible.

- You and your father have eternal wars inside.

I like being alone, Mom. I know you don't get it, but it's true.

He looked at me like that... He looked like an angel. And in response I wanted to give him a fist in the jaw. I hated myself for my cruelty.

... The world is a gloomy place. I agree with Conrad here.
- Maybe your world, Ari, but not mine.

There is probably nothing more beautiful.

... I realized that everything was happening for real. I wasn't real alone.

And my friendship with Dante in a strange way exacerbated my loneliness. Maybe it's because Dante was always and everywhere at home. And I am out of place everywhere. Even in your own body - especially in your own body. I changed and no longer recognized myself. Change was painfully given to me, but I could not understand why. And all my emotions seemed to be some kind of nonsense.

- I wonder when we will feel that the world belongs to us?
I wanted to answer that the world would never belong to us. But instead he said:
- I don't know. - And then I added: - Tomorrow.