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The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
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The heart, yeah, sometimes I didn’t get it. But if we were making each other laugh and smile, maybe it was part of the way human beings loved each other.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
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He looked at the stubborn woman standing in front of him, her hair uncombed and wild, her eyes red with tears, her face wounded. In that moment, he thought, she was as beautiful as she had ever been.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I never cared much for people with money. They were a little too proud of themselves, too entitled. They never entertained the possibility that they might just be overpaid.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Who hurt you? When did it happen? How many times? Where? Tell me. Why do you hate yourself? Where do you keep the hurt?
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Her eyes were as sad as they were fierce.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
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You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.
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Sam, she was smart as hell. And she knew stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. She also felt stuff. Oh, man, could Sam feel. Sometimes I thought she was doing all the thinking, all the feeling, and all the living for both of us.
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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Letting someone touch you in the place where it hurts the most, if I could do that, if I could just do that, well, that would mean I was alive.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I realized that Sam wasn’t angry at all. She was hurt. At that moment I heard all the hurt she’d ever held. And it seemed to me that the whole house had quieted down to listen to her pain.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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He looked like a summer morning when he smiled, exactly like a summer morning.
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And what constituted a cure? What was healing for a damaged human being? Who needed help and who didn’t? And anyway, was there really a cure for the truly hurt? People could be totaled, just like cars.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I'm trying not to be ashamed...
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.
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She could almost see his smile. A sunrise. Breaking the darkness.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
No one can run from a storm.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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She wrapped her hands around my face and looked into my eyes. Her hands were old, but they were the softest, kindest hands that had ever touched me. She didn’t say anything. She just smiled.
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Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Maybe I’d always had the wrong idea as to who I really was.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that’s all that matters.
Benjamin Alire Saenz