“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Healed Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Meanings Copy Share Image
“They thought our youth could help us overcome anything.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Overcome Copy Share Image
“This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz People Tell Copy Share Image
“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Comedy 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
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Hands Copy Share Image
“My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Irony Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Family Copy Share Image
“The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Exist Copy Share Image
“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Adulthood Copy Share Image
“See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean,… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Articulate 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 knew I’d gone crazy but I couldn’t explain it to myself. Maybe that’s what happens when you go crazy. You just… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Crazy Copy Share Image
“..and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I do not know what it means to be okay. I have never known and maybe I will never know. Okay is… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Know Okay Copy Share Image
“There were so many ghosts in our house...And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ghosts 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… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Breakfast Copy Share Image
“I took out my journal. I'd been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Anger 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 Entire life 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… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Face to face Copy Share Image
“See that tree?" It was a stubby cypress tree, all bent and twisted. "Yeah, I see it." "It's my favorite tree." "It's… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Trees Copy Share Image
“Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Noise pollution Copy Share Image
“It looked like it was going to rain. They always came this time of year, the rains. I heard the distant thunder.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Rain 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 Being high Copy Share Image
“Gina and Susie were cool, though. No hint of the beer they said they were going to score. They played good girls… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad girl 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful Copy Share Image
I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Character Copy Share Image
“Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we'd all… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Noise Copy Share Image
“What is it with you and that book?" Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Book Copy Share Image
“That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Photograph Copy Share Image
“But, you know, I was experimenting. You know, discovering the secrets of the universe.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Discovering 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 Hurt Copy Share Image
“One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Psychology Copy Share Image
“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Cigarette 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 of tragedy, the idea that I was destined to live a tragic life. I had this romantic idea about the life of a writer and what he was supposed to suffer. [...:] Somehow I made my own pain a kind…” quote by Benjamin Alire Saenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/988/benjamin-alire-s-enz-1125_life_i-lived-in-pain-because-i-chose-to-live_1560783.jpg)
