“It was always easier to be disgusted after the fact. It was easier to shake your head and be outraged, as if… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Words were not things you could control. Not always.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Control Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz War Copy Share Image
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Careful Copy Share Image
“I hated God for giving me a heart. What good were they? Hearts? Having one got me exactly where?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Hated Copy Share Image
“I like the old words better. They're like old friends.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and the world refused to break.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Storm Copy Share Image
“. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Alive Copy Share Image
“Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful is that?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beauty Copy Share Image
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Talking Copy Share Image
“There I was. Sitting in my car. In the rain. Talking to Alejandra. And it felt more like home than the place… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Rain Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Saddest Copy Share Image
“I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Knew Copy Share Image
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Feeling Copy Share Image
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Beauty Copy Share Image
“You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Art Copy Share Image
“We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Collateral damage Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Her mother had left a note on the bathroom mirror, written in lipstick: just because my love isn't perfect doesn't mean I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life Copy Share Image
“See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Anger Copy Share Image
“When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Dante Copy Share Image
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Adventure Copy Share Image
“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language Copy Share Image
“See, the thing about guys is that I didn’t really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Guys Copy Share Image
“Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Graduation Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Books Copy Share Image
“You fight yourself, Zach. And you keep fighting yourself. And it's killing you because you're fighting the best part of yourself.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Fight Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle-and-dante Copy Share Image
“You think you and Dad are the only ones who can keep things on the inside? Dad keeps a whole war inside… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz War Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Believe Copy Share Image
“Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Behavior Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why she liked all those bad boys. They were outcasts. It was like she was picking up strays and taking… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad boy Copy Share Image
“It made me smile, the way they got along, the easy and affectionate way they talked to each other as if love… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“They were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah,… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. [...] Those words tasted bitter. But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words were…” quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6df/benjamin-alire-s-enz-1125_language_i-wanted-to-feel-those-words-in-my-mouth_2292345.jpg)
