I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you. How could a guy live without meanness?
Benjamin Alire SáenzWords were different when they lived inside of you.
Benjamin Alire SáenzDante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
Benjamin Alire SáenzWhy did I have to be a good boy just because I had a bad-boy brother? I hated the way my mom and dad did family math.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me. But now he knew. That I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.
Benjamin Alire SáenzAnd it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?
Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.
'Smiles are like that. They come and go.
For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI 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.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.
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