“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Cigarette Copy Share Image
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Boys Copy Share Image
“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Art Copy Share Image
“I hated God for giving me a heart. What good were they? Hearts? Having one got me exactly where?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ari Copy Share Image
“Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?' 'Is that something I should aspire to?” — 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
“I couldn’t decide if the dream was a good dream or a bad dream. Maybe a good dream because when I woke… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad dream Copy Share Image
“Do you think it will always be this way?” “What?” “I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life and living Copy Share Image
“I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either. I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“It was always easier to be disgusted after the fact. It was easier to shake your head and be outraged, as if… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Outrage Copy Share Image
“And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful writing 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
“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
“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
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Books Copy Share Image
“It made me smile, the way they got along, the easy and affectionate way they talked to each other as if love… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Affectionate Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why she liked all those bad boys. They were outcasts. It was like she was picking up strays and taking… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad boy Copy Share Image
“The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Calm Copy Share Image
“You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Art Copy Share Image
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Collateral damage Copy Share Image
“Why did I have to be a good boy just because I had a bad-boy brother? I hated the way my mom… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Brother Copy Share Image
“Some girls, I thought, were perfect shits. Other girls were very, very beautiful.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You fight yourself, Zach. And you keep fighting yourself. And it's killing you because you're fighting the best part of yourself.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Fight Copy Share Image
“But I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been born… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Her mother had left a note on the bathroom mirror, written in lipstick: just because my love isn't perfect doesn't mean I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Adults Copy Share Image
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Poems Copy Share Image
“I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Desert Copy Share Image
“But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friends 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)
