“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us? I wanted to tell him that the world would… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz World 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 Photography 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 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'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
“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
“Anger is an emotion. But there’s always something behind anger. Something stronger. You know what that is?” “Is that a trick question?”… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Fear Copy Share Image
“had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language 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
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Addiction 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
“My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Truth Copy Share Image
“And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Someone who understood that using the "f" word wasn't… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for.” — 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 Accepting 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
“When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Alcoholism 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
“It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful writing 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 Life 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 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
