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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."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."

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Akiroq Brost

"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."

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"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs."

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"I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known."

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"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."

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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."

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"Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me."

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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

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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."

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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."

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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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