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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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"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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"A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes."

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"Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language."

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"To escape death, she'd become death."

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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."

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"Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold."

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"Time evolves daily."

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"If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company."

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"A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm."

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"If you can endure anything, you can become anything."

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"The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision."

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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
"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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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."

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

Science

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