“Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?' 'Is that something I should aspire to?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
“I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle-and-dante Copy Share Image
“I have this storm inside me. It's trying to kill me. I wonder sometimes if that's such a bad thing. I know… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad thing Copy Share Image
But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Heavy 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 Friendship 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 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
“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 Friends 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
I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Asking questions Copy Share Image
“Some girls, I thought, were perfect shits. Other girls were very, very beautiful.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh unit I laughed myself into becoming someone else.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Laughter Copy Share Image
Words were different when they lived inside of you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Different Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’d always had the wrong idea as to who I really was.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“All my friends thought I was a very happy human being. Because that's how I acted- like a really happy human being.… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Friendship Copy Share Image
“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Parenting Copy Share Image
“In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Art Copy Share Image
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Boys Copy Share Image
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Poetry Copy Share Image
