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I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
— Miguel Syjuco
Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.
— Miguel Syjuco
Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.
— Miguel Syjuco
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
— Miguel Syjuco
How do such flaws become beautiful in the right person?
— Miguel Syjuco
Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.
— Miguel Syjuco
Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.
— Miguel Syjuco
Love isn't based on gratitude. Respect isn't based on debt.
— Miguel Syjuco
The little things, you know, eventually become everything.
— Miguel Syjuco
Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.
— Miguel Syjuco
I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so. — Miguel Syjuco
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so. — Miguel Syjuco
My absence was gradual, until one day it was complete.
— Miguel Syjuco
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'
— Miguel Syjuco
Guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.
— Miguel Syjuco
Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground
— Miguel Syjuco
Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go.
— Miguel Syjuco
Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.
— Miguel Syjuco
To be angry implies you care
— Miguel Syjuco
morality... comes at a price.
— Miguel Syjuco
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.
— Miguel Syjuco
Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?
— Miguel Syjuco
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
— Miguel Syjuco
As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family
— Miguel Syjuco
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
— Miguel Syjuco
A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.
— Miguel Syjuco
Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.
— Miguel Syjuco
A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about
— Miguel Syjuco
And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.
— Miguel Syjuco
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
— Miguel Syjuco
Love and honesty don't mix.
— Miguel Syjuco
I transform fiction into memory.
— Miguel Syjuco
Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World.
— Miguel Syjuco
Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality
— Miguel Syjuco
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
— Miguel Syjuco
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
— Miguel Syjuco
Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale
— Miguel Syjuco
I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.
— Miguel Syjuco