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1 " I wanted to make her forget. I thought that a guy's kisses could make a girl forget all the bad stuff. Sixteen year old boys don't know shit. How could a tongue down a girl's throat make her forget? "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
2 " The world wasn't all that good to her and she wanted to remind everyone around her, but mostly herself I think, that she was worth something, that the air was hers too, that the ground she walked on was as much hers as it was anybody else's. "
3 " Someone had named the barrio we lived in Hollywood. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was a prayer. "
4 " I really did believe that God had planted leaves in our hearts so that we could remember Eden. "
5 " Hate could make the wings strong too. "
6 " Maybe thats why he did heroin, because his dreams were too big. "
7 " I wanted to say all those things to her, but I got so caught up in the conversation I was having with myself that I didn't say anything. "
8 " I always felt like there was too much of me to stuff into my own flesh. And I wanted to tell her that we who liked words so much, we had so little to say. Julianna was right, words didn't mean as much as I thought. "
9 " There's nothing you can smoke or drink that will make you forget, not one damn thing. And that's sad, Sammy. "