First, let me apologize, because I don't have nearly as many quotes as I would like. This is a beautiful book, and I could in all honest just re-write the entire book here and it would all be beautiful quotes. Unfortunately, I only took down a few of the ones that grabbed my attention, so here they are (I also apologize for the awkward highlighting, my computer's being funky and I need to get back to reading):
“My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries in the universe in someone’s hand.”
“Dante had this look on his face. He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn’t stand my own cruelty.”
“I’d figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn’t like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.”
“Probably, beer wasn’t good for boys either. But, you know, I was experimenting. You know, discovering the secrets of the universe. Not that I thought I’d find the secrets of the universe in a Budweiser.”
“‘I’ll never lie to you about anything,’ he said
‘I might lie to you,’ I said. And then we laughed. And I thought, Maybe this will be the summer where there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.”
“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.”
“I thought of what my mom had said. ‘You talk like a man.’ It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.”
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