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1 " See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , He Forgot to Say Goodbye
2 " Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful. "
3 " We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn. "
4 " The problem with parents is that they're adults. "
5 " People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing. "
6 " God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of. "
7 " It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful. "
8 " There was this thing, this chaos inside me. And it had a noise, a howling. That’s what it was. I was nothing more than a dog or a coyote or any other animal in pain. And even then I was trying to speak. But my words weren’t any use in the face of the terrible wind that was escaping from my heart. I guess it was from my heart. It hurt so bad. Why did it hurt so bad? "
9 " I hated God for giving me a heart. What good were they? Hearts? Having one got me exactly where? "
10 " People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy. "
11 " There I was.Sitting in my car.In the rain.Talking to Alejandra.And it felt more like home than the place where I slept. "
12 " And then we all just started laughing. We laughed our assesoff. But I knew that really, all three of us were crying. And Iknew there would be tears inside of us all our lives. Because theyjust left. We were even worth a good-bye. Yeah, therewould always be tears inside of us. Because there was an emptyspace inside the three of us that would always belong to theparent who had refused to love us. "
13 " You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do. "
14 " Some girls, I thought, were perfect shits. Other girls were very, very beautiful. "
15 " sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of "
16 " i didn't need therapy- i needed a new set of parents "