- "to be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing"
- "i always upset him. and other people too. i guess that's what i do"
- "um dos segredos do universo era que nossos instintos eram às vezes mais fortes que nossas mentes."
- "cicatrizes. sinais de que você foi ferido. sinais de que você curou."
- "until dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. but dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. not in my world, they weren't."
- "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 just stupidly repeated myself. "dante's my friend.""
dec 15 2021 ∞
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