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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"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."

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"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."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"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."
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"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."
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"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
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"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
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"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."
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"Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing."
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"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."
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"And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?"
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"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."
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"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
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