“ I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. ”
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Rafael?””Yeah?”„Do we all have monsters?”„Yes.”„Why does God give us so many monsters?”„You want to know my theory?”„Sure.”„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it.
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
