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“I keep that memory somewhere inside me—​where it’s safe. I take it out and look at it when I need to. As if it were a photograph.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life