If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZWater was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
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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 to break.
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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 of the universe in someone’s hand.
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Words were different when they lived inside of you.
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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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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 end in lightning and thunder.
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But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
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I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
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Absent parents aren’t abusive per se. They’re neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they’re not parents in the way that we might think of it.
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I don’t want to just discuss the issues – I want family to be a real part of the character of the novels I write, and I don’t like to write things that feel like issue books.
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I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance – and I come by this naturally, or I think I do – I am a very good judge of character.
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The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.
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You are thirst and thirst is all I know
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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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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 of life.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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