Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 Copy Share Image
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I guess life hurt everybody. I didn't understand the logic of this thing we called living. Maybe I wasn't supposed to.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 Copy Share Image
“I lived in pain because I chose to live in pain. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with the idea… — Benjamin Alire Saenz 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 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 Copy Share Image
“The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 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 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
“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 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
“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 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 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
“Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry?… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 don't know… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 of my… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
