“Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Don’t you have hobbies?” “Sure. Staring at the blank walls.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Addiction Copy Share Image
“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dream Copy Share Image
“Maybe the problem between me and my father was that we were both the same.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Father Copy Share Image
I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Father Copy Share Image
“Highways are nice and saved, and they have signs tellings you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Highways Copy Share Image
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Book Copy Share Image
“For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
“Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Highways Copy Share Image
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Downpour Copy Share Image
“A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs . That's the truth. I don't… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Computers Copy Share Image
“Ad we interviewing each other? Something like that. What position am I applying for? Best friend. I thought I already had the… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Arrogant Copy Share Image
“Did the thought ever occur to you that I might care about you? People are allowed to care about each other." "You… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Care Copy Share Image
“I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad temper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you are feeling. Because you're feeling too much.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Maybe you're just in love with being an outsider. You can join the human race any time you want to." "What makes… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Human race Copy Share Image
“This is the way I see it: if you get to know yourself really well, you might discover that deep down inside… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
“And then I don't know why, but I felt sad. And then I started thinking about my brother. Every time I felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Brother Copy Share Image
“I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“I've been hurting most of my life. I tried to pretend I wasn't. I even believed my own lie. I've lived my… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Entire life Copy Share Image
“I can teach you how to swim, if you want.' I kind of liked his voice. He sounded like he had a… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Noise pollution Copy Share Image
“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“He drags it out of her, all those feelings she has.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Feelings Copy Share Image
“When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when people talk, they don't always tell the truth.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Loneliness Copy Share Image
“I don't always have to understand the people I love.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Learning Copy Share Image
