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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

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Akiroq Brost

"All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says."

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"Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time."

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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."

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"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."

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"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess."

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"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

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"They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover."

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Akiroq Brost

"The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while."

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Akiroq Brost

"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."

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"Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty."

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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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