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Explore more quotes by 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."

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

"Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there."

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

"I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled."

"The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs."

"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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