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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How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.
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Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.
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Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.
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I just felt something snap in my leg. I couldn't go on.
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I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.
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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.
