my favorite author just passed away

Just heard today that Benjamin Alire Sáenz passed away and it hit me like a truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and Last Night I Sang to the Monster by him quite literally saved my life during the hardest years of my mental illness. The quote, "The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea" stayed with me all through the first years of my first full-time…