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.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

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?

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and dived deeply into her ocean of love and that's how I saved my soul!

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

You mustn't be afraid to sparkle a little brighter darling .

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Cultures are not very easy to change. They're sometimes almost impossible to change.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

Human nature is a work in progress.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.