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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."

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"I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."

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"Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too."

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"The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans."

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"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."

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"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."

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"I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."

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"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."

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"The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time."

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"Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself."

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"I hate skin, I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever."

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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
"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."

Passion

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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."

Longing

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

Life

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