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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole."

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Akiroq Brost

"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

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Akiroq Brost

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else."

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Akiroq Brost

"How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?"

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Akiroq Brost

"The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember."

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Akiroq Brost

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."

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Akiroq Brost

"You don't have to be in hurry in life."

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Akiroq Brost

"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."

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Akiroq Brost

"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."

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Akiroq Brost

"Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good."

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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
"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."

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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."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."

Life

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