What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not a complicated theory. It's just simple logic.
Benjamin Alire SáenzStichwörter: advice logical-thinking
And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI loved the different rules of summer.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.
Benjamin Alire SáenzIt was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me.
Benjamin Alire SáenzThat was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
Benjamin Alire SáenzI hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
Benjamin Alire SáenzSenior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody got to write you -- but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. And you could do all the writing. Yeah. Wouldn't that be sweet?
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