“I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Harder 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.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dark clouds Copy Share Image
“Our parents are really weird,” he said. “Because they love us? That’s not so weird.” “It’s how they love us that’s weird.”… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love u Copy Share Image
“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Connections Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Drugs 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 Cried Copy Share Image
“I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Around the world Copy Share Image
“Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad weather 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 stared at the reproduced mural in the book--but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ask questions Copy Share Image
“He hadn't left any of the stretches that he'd done of me. But he did leave a sketch of my rocking chair.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Long time Copy Share Image
“This is my theory: the people who shouldn't hate themselves, do hate themselves. And the people who should hate themselves, don't hate… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship Copy Share Image
“I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Girls Copy Share Image
“What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Advice Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Father Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Mean world Copy Share Image
“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 Tomorrow Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that Dante’s face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante 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
“He’s so cute I would have thrown myself in front of a moving car too.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Cute Copy Share Image
“You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Driving Copy Share Image
“There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Don’t you have hobbies?” “Sure. Staring at the blank walls.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Hobby Copy Share Image
“And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sun Copy Share Image
Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Accepting Copy Share Image
“And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn’t even met yet. They were there. Lying in… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ghosts Copy Share Image
“A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs . That's the truth. I don't… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Computers 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 Dream 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 Break 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
