“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
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 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
“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
“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 Highways 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 Highways Copy Share Image
“For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Change Copy Share Image
“It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Inside Copy Share Image
“People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Parties 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
“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
“Did the thought ever occur to you that I might care about you? People are allowed to care about each other." "You… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Care Copy Share Image
“Rafael?” ”Yeah?” „Do we all have monsters?” „Yes.” „Why does God give us so many monsters?” „You want to know my theory?”… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz God Copy Share Image
“What do you love, Ari? What do you really love?" "I love the desert. God, I love the desert." "It's so lonely."… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Healed Copy Share Image
