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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"I thought of what my mom had said. 'You talk like a man.' It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."

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"I thought of what my mom had said. 'You talk like a man.' It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."

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"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

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"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

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"I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither."

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"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."

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"True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do."

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"My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it."

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"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."

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"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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"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."
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"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."
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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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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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"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."
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