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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him."

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Akiroq Brost

"If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done."

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"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."

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Akiroq Brost

"Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers."

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"You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youE1d actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donE1t think sheE1s joking."

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Akiroq Brost

"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

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"Zombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing."

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"Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!"

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"Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses."

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"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."

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"Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions."

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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."

Isolation

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."

Adolescence

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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
"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."

Youth

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid."

Observation

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn't totally true. The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet."

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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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