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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad."

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"All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad."

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Akiroq Brost

"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

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"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."

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Akiroq Brost

"You're sad but you hold everything back..."

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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."

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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

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Akiroq Brost

"I miss you something awful sometimes."

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

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Akiroq Brost

"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."

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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"

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"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser."

Fate

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."

Emotion

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"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."

Pain

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand."

Understanding

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."

Identity

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"That was the first time I did coke.My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that."

Passion

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Longing

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

Talent

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