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A review by beansbookclub
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.0
this ya novel was one of the most poignant, moving, and beautiful ones i've read.
"you want me to explain this with logic? well, where was the logic to loving? ...where was the logic to cancer? where was the logic to living? i was starting to believe that the human heart had an inexplicable logic. but i was also starting to get drunk, so i wasn't trusting anything i was thinking."
"maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. that's not how the heart worked. the heart didn't make lists."
"i held the envelope in my hand and opened it with all the care that was in me. and there in the envelope were some dry leaves. yellow leaves. and there was a note. i started at Mirna's handwriting. 'these are the leaes that my Salvador gave me one saturday afternoon when he was five.' i knew then that that day had been just as beautiful for her as it had been for me."
"you want me to explain this with logic? well, where was the logic to loving? ...where was the logic to cancer? where was the logic to living? i was starting to believe that the human heart had an inexplicable logic. but i was also starting to get drunk, so i wasn't trusting anything i was thinking."
"maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. that's not how the heart worked. the heart didn't make lists."
"i held the envelope in my hand and opened it with all the care that was in me. and there in the envelope were some dry leaves. yellow leaves. and there was a note. i started at Mirna's handwriting. 'these are the leaes that my Salvador gave me one saturday afternoon when he was five.' i knew then that that day had been just as beautiful for her as it had been for me."