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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

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. — 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

You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring. — 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

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

All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft. — 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

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco

When you're unhappy with your life, you become more selfish with it. — Miguel Syjuco

A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father. — 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

How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp? — Miguel Syjuco

Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World. — Miguel Syjuco

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have. — 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

Just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified — Miguel Syjuco

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. — Miguel Syjuco

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! — Miguel Syjuco

Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back. — Miguel Syjuco