“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Art Copy Share Image
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Memory Copy Share Image
“And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn’t even met yet. They were there. Lying in… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ghosts Copy Share Image
“As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sun Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that Dante’s face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
“Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we'd all… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be". And then she said, "Déjate querer.” Let yourself be loved” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language Copy Share Image
“I kind of liked his voice. He sounded like he had a cold, you know, like he was about to lose his… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Everyone was always becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Monster Copy Share Image
“Anger is an emotion. But there’s always something behind anger. Something stronger. You know what that is?” “Is that a trick question?”… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Anger Copy Share Image
“Did you love your brother?" "I don't remember." "You don't remember?" "No, Adam, I don't." He knew I was lying. I guess… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I had all kinds of tragic reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
“I’ll always remember that look on your face. You saw me. You’ve always seen me. And I think that’s all that anyone… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love 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
“He got out of the car. He stood out in the heat. I knew he was trying to organize himself. Like a… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“See, the thing about guys is that I didn’t really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Graduation Copy Share Image
“It makes me angry that you hate yourself for something that somebody else made you do. Don't let them take any more.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Angry Copy Share Image
“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language Copy Share Image
“When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Character Copy Share Image
“There I was. Sitting in my car. In the rain. Talking to Alejandra. And it felt more like home than the place… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Rain Copy Share Image
“Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh unit I laughed myself into becoming someone else.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Laugh Copy Share Image
“I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Desperate Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. [...] Those words tasted bitter. But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words were…” quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6df/benjamin-alire-s-enz-1125_language_i-wanted-to-feel-those-words-in-my-mouth_2292345.png)
