Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

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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.
• If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
• The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
• Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could…
• Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out…
• Words were different when they lived inside of you.
• But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
• I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s…
• I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why…
• I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused…
• Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way…
• For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I…
• You are thirst and thirst is all I know
• The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
• I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

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