"The summer sun was not meant for boys……" — Benjamin Alire Saenz
"The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain."
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16 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make…
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could…
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Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and…
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Words were different when they lived inside of you.
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But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
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I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries…
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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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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why…
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I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world…
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Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as…
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For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like…
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