“I like the old words better. They're like old friends.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship Copy Share Image
“. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Home Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’d always had the wrong idea as to who I really was.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Boys 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
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Honesty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and the world refused to break.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?' 'Is that something I should aspire to?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Tell 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
“Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life Copy Share Image
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Beauty Copy Share Image
“See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Anger Copy Share Image
“Dogs don't censor themselves. Maybe animals were smarter than people. The dog was so happy. My mom and dad too. It felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dog Copy Share Image
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Forgetting 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 Aristotle Copy Share Image
“And every time I did spectacularly well in my classes, and I'm here to tell you that I did spectacularly well, I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Time Copy Share Image
“Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life Copy Share Image
“But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“All my friends thought I was a very happy human being. Because that's how I acted- like a really happy human being.… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Friendship Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship Copy Share Image
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Adventure Copy Share Image
“There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Left behind 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 Copy Share Image
