Here are the best phrases from El Chico de las Estrellas, a literary work by Chris Pueyo published in 2014, which touches on topics such as self-discovery, homosexuality, love, self-acceptance and personal empowerment.
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Chris Pueyo, author of "El Chico de las Estrellas" at the 2016 Santiago International Book Fair. Rodrigo Fernández, from Wikimedia Commons
-There are uncomfortable silences and silences in which we would stay to live for a lifetime. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Age is not measured in years… but in desire. -The Boy of the Stars.
-I honestly believe that happiness lies in the ins and outs of ignorance, and there is nothing more ignorantly happy than a child. -The Boy of the Stars.
-When did love stop being a game between two people to be a battle? -The Boy of the Stars.
-And then I discovered that he was right, that people are not always what we wanted to be, that sometimes we are something better. -The Boy of the Stars.
-I learned to survive without forgetting you. I didn't need to hate you to accept you. Now you are an image in my memories full of affection, but nothing more. I wish you the best, the war is over. -The Boy of the Stars.
-An instant is a short period of time, almost unpredictable. There are those who collect them and those who forget them. There are even those who live them and do not realize it. -The Boy of the Stars.
-One cannot do great things without great people. -The Boy of the Stars.
-A child should never go to sleep, because when he wakes up he is one day older. -The Boy of the Stars.
-He is responsible for my favorite number being navy blue and for my lucky color being six. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The world should know that there are falls that are flying, that dreams are for those who do not fall asleep and that it is possible to cheat time, escaping from the crocodile and its ticking. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The best things happen without pretending them. -The Boy of the Stars.
-What yesterday silenced us, the world today unites us against him. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Remember me only if you think I deserve it. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Dreaming sometimes is the only thing we have left. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The last one who stops loving loses. -The Boy of the Stars.
-I can't ask you not to cry, but I hope you smile very soon. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Anyone can stumble when the lights are out -The Star Boy.
-To touch the sky you have to be brave and fall in love again. Then and only then, if you still want, life invites you to touch the sky. -The Boy of the Stars.
-When will we learn that being wrong is good? -The Boy of the Stars.
-The world without errors would be too reasonable. -The Boy of the Stars.
-We were everything that we could not give ourselves. -The Boy from the Stars.
-He was always just as gay but never so happy. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Life passed and I felt that I was going to die of love. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Listening is one of the most difficult things in the world. We miss classes to learn to listen and we have hours of math to spare. -The Boy of the Stars.
-You left my life and not to let someone new in, but to get out what didn't fit. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Rebellion. My lip has been pierced, but I'm happy. Maybe it's not the piercing, but everything that involves. -The Boy of the Stars.
-She taught me to retain the ability to stay away from things that hurt me. -The Boy of the Stars.
-I have always believed that your room has to have the color that your soul has. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The Boy of the Stars was not especially handsome, nor too tall, nor overly funny, but he was the person with the most desire to be happy that I have ever met. It was me. -The Boy of the Stars.
-What will it be like to know that you can never make the person you love happy? -The Boy of the Stars.
-The best thing about living in a sad world is transforming it. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The saddest things are those that should be happy and they are not. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The rain is underrated. Clean Temper the wind. It produces life and nostalgia. Like the color gray. The last one on the left in the marker box. The one that serves to paint. Outcast. And ugly. -The Boy of the Stars.
-A minute of silence for all those things that will never be. That you will never do. A minute of silence for the cowards. -The Boy of the Stars.
-If when you defoliate the heart you feel the thorn that breaks your crying, if by a kiss you put life. What does your gender matter? If you put the soul. -Malu.
-The great heroes are those who fix the world while the world is not looking. The ones that make you smile even if you have a shitty life. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Real friends are counted on the fingers of one hand. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Happiness is capricious, it jumps from person to person like an alternative cricket; curiously, it can remain in someone for a thousandth of a second or stay to live forever. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Perhaps it is not the person who changes. Perhaps the one who changes is the weather and it changes us all. -The Boy of the Stars.
-The bravest are the people who defend injustices even if they are lost causes. -The Boy of the Stars.
-A creative adult will always be the child who has survived. The world should know this secret. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Sometimes we need to feel really alone to realize the company that we are capable of giving ourselves by loving each other a little more. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Ironically, by weakening me you made me stronger. -The Boy of the Stars.
-There are kisses that miss the train. Darling that is late. And buses to Toledo that escape very fast. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Write is to look inside what is not seen. -The Boy of the Stars.
-One does not suffer so much when something is missing that has never had. -The Boy of the Stars.
-How difficult to live when you are different. -The Boy of the Stars.
-There is no place outside the world, but there are moments that make you completely forget about it. -The Boy of the Stars.
-We people are flesh and blood. Memories and complexes. Love and doubts. But above all, people are instants. -The Boy of the Stars.
-My life is my decisions. I choose to live. Let no one take me away from living. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Maybe the secret of great things is to put together many little ones. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Over time I have understood that anyone can trip when the lights are off. -The Boy of the Stars.
-And then I understood that the world had to be changed. I learned to dream. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Call me frivolous, but after all. What are good and bad people if not circumstances, decisions or fear of asking for forgiveness? -The Boy of the Stars.
-That night the stars agreed, loosened the screws that tightened the temples of the world and gave happiness a few seconds ahead. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Of sad storms, answers. Of the months of the year, instants. From the white of the walls, stars. -The Boy of the Stars.
-One cannot take great steps without big shoes. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Hate is poorly managed love. -The Boy of the Stars.
-I learned to enjoy life a little. That at any moment changes your plans. -The Boy of the Stars.
-Because although one always returns to remember, the places are also the people with whom we share them. -The Boy of the Stars.