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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
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The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
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The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.
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I felt alone, but not in a bad way. I really liked being alone. Maybe I liked it too much. Maybe
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I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
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Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she'd had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent - like a scar or an immutable tattoo.
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Nothing. It's just that most smart people are perfect shits.
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I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
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I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.
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Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
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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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He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.
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We looked at each other. We didn't really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.
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The problem with parents is that they're adults.
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Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age.
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Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.
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Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I'd grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?
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I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask.
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But why? Why don't I want to fight when fight is all I've ever known and loved? I've fought for every inch of joy I've ever known.
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God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice.
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I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
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She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
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I was fifteen.I was bored.
I was miserable. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
Her fading voice was the one I heard the loudest.
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Everywhere you went, you left something behind. Maybe someday he would come back and get it.
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The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.
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They broke more than his ribs.
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And why were the voices there, but he knew why and he knew they would always be there, the voices, knocking at his door, taking over his house.
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Salvation is too heavy a load for a child to carry.
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There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
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I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.
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Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.
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I wished it was raining," he said."I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
What did words matter to a desert?
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You are what you remember.
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Have you noticed that some people don't giveA damn and just keep on shopping? — Benjamin Alire Saenz
. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
I don't always have to understand the people I love.
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I loved the different rules of summer.
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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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You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.""You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
I think of their anger as a wind. And that wind took them away. From me. And all the others like me. So
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When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.
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Her laugh was as fragile as the leaves she had raked when I was five.
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So," I said, "the only way for me to arrive at angel status is to appear in your screwed-up dreams." "Take it any way you can get it, babe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
They cracked more than his ribs.
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...and I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world.
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Yeah," I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs.
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I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't getand never would get. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
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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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For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.
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It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue.
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In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?" "I'm an educated woman. That doesn't un-Mexicanize me, Ari.
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It was warm in the kitchen and I felt safe.
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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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I wish I didn't have a heart that God wrote Sad on.
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?""Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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You belong everywhere you go. That's just how you are.
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Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe.
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Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted - because the light was gone.
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody's theme song.
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The world had changed. And this new world was quiet and sad.
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Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.
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I noticed his smile was a little sad. Maybe everyone was a little sad. Maybe so.
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The storm was fierce. But I wasn't afraid. I knew my father's love was fiercer than any storm.
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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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I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?
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In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist.
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that
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It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else.
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I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
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And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?
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Do you think the heart needs love to keep on beating?
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People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
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Don't ever underestimate the people who love you.
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Like a girl, but a girl who had always been a woman.
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Your body is nothing but a money machine." That's what Uncle Rudy says. "That's the way it is. We're all just prostitutes.
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I'm trying not to be ashamed...
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There are worst things in life than kissing boys
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Dejate querer. Let yourself be loved.
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Because you didn't need words when you were sitting in the light.
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This boy would dream her forever.
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Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.
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To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
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He drags it out of her, all those feelings she has.
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I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
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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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People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough.
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We are all collateral damage for someone's beautifulIdeology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.
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It was like letting go of the sky.
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You don't deserve this, Brian. I wanted to shove that phrase into his heart. But I knew he'd always believe that he did deserve what he got.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
You know what the worst thing about adults is?""No."
"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
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If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
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