Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
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My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
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Israel's strength will allow it to face the situation. We will carry on running the country and pray for good news from the hospital.
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My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.
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Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home.
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[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.
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When the Foundations of one's life are Cracked, Expect to see Shifting of Thoughts and Emotions.
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I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.
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I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
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I spent my earlier years putting people in the hospital and now I spend my time trying to keep them out of the hospital
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When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.
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I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.
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We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
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There is something of her in me; I feel it, behind my ribs. I like to think of it as all the love she never got to give me.
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
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South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.
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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.
