Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.
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When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
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I guess that was going to be my new thing. I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.
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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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I fell in love with the thunder.
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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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Don’t, amor. Te adoro. I’ve already lost a son. I’m not going to lose another. You’re not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you’re not.” “How can you love me so much?” “How could I not love you? You’re the most beautiful boy in the world.
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Some people are so beautiful that they belong everywhere they go.
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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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She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That’s what he was.
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And then Fito sort of hung his head and he was blinking his eyes, like he was trying to blink away all the tears that he’d held inside all his life.
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A country will never love you like a woman.
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Right then I witnessed the world they lived in go completely silent. The world was flooding with their tears.
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I closed my eyes and let the water rush over me and I wondered what it would be like to be as soft as water, to make people clean, to quench people's thirst. That would be a beautiful thing, to be like water.
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Had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words is different.
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Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings.
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I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
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Salvation is too heavy a load for a child to carry.
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My life was still someone else's idea.
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I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
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The problem with parents is that they're adults.
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Sam had once told him that the shape of the human heart changed every time it loved someone.
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Grace, too, gives me hope. She is still so beautiful. She shaved her head, and I can see the sun there.
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See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.