Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.
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All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.
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The world was so silent. There was a barrier between me and the world, and I thought for a moment that the world had never wanted me and now it was taking the opportunity to get rid of me.
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Turning on the radio and just sitting there was my version of praying.
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I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.
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That’s how she loved people—by feeding them.
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People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough.
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Your pain’s become the only light you know. You want to punish yourself. You think your life has to be a tragedy.
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On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn’t going away anytime soon.
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He’d run and run until his heart burst into flames. And he would become nothing but ash. No body, no heart, no bone, no flesh—just carbon matter scattering in the wind.
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She was hard as stone. And I hated her. I think I still hate her. Though in between then and now, I loved her. I would have done anything for her. And I did. I did everything she asked.
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He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.
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I felt alone, but not in a bad way. I really liked being alone. Maybe I liked it too much.
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The thing is I love my dad. My mom too. And I keep wondering what they're going to say when I tell them that someday I want to marry a boy. I wonder how that's going to go over? i'm the only son. What's going to happen with the grandchildren thing? I hat that I'm going to disappoint them, Ari. I know I've disappointed you too.
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Our parents are really weird. Because they love us? That’s not so weird. It’s how they love us that’s weird.
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Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
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That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
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Sometimes when people talk, they don't always tell the truth.
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I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting
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You are what you remember.
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A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites.
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Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.
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When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
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For no reason at all, he thought that she looked like a nun. The beautiful kind. The kind that gave and gave because that’s what they knew how to do. And the giving made them more beautiful.