Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.
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My heart belongs to daddy.
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Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.
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There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...
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I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
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I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.
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When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater
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If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.
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Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little.
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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
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I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
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There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.
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I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
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My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or a thousand have passed by, to torture yourself with the idea of your soul trapped behind ice for all eternity. I know what torture there is behind ice.
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I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
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And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.
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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
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For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.
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Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.
