“Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Expected Copy Share Image
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Cold Copy Share Image
“I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Knowing Copy Share Image
But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Carry Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Differently Copy Share Image
“Don’t you have hobbies?” “Sure. Staring at the blank walls.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Hobby Copy Share Image
“Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Summer 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
“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
“I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle-and-dante 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
“People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Right thing Copy Share Image
“There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Animals Copy Share Image
“I have this storm inside me. It's trying to kill me. I wonder sometimes if that's such a bad thing. I know… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Those words tasted bitter. But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language Copy Share Image
“And I knew that there was something about me that Mrs. Quintana saw and loved. And even though I felt it was… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship 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 Aristotle 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
“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
“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 Confused Copy Share Image
“I didn't care because what mattered is that Dante's voice felt real. And I felt real. Until Dante, being with other people… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Hardest thing Copy Share Image
“I hated when Rafael said he hated himself. Sometimes he would say something like that. I just didn’t like hearing that. Why… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Good friend Copy Share Image
“People were wired to hell. He wanted to growl like a rabid mastiff when he heard someone say, "The body is a… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Computers Copy Share Image
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Being sad Copy Share Image
“We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life 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 Fight 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
“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 Deep inside Copy Share Image
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Addiction Copy Share Image
“Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Know Copy Share Image
