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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."

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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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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."

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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

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"Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for."

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"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."

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Akiroq Brost

"At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."

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Akiroq Brost

"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'll see you soon. I promise.And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.For a moment."

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"Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape - shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another."

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Akiroq Brost

"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."

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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."

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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 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."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter, my name was Air.I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."

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