“And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry.” — 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
“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Alcohol 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
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Comfortable Copy Share Image
“I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Barbed wire 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
“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 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
“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
“I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Rain Copy Share Image
“Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Parenting 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
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Love Copy Share Image
“God, it would never go away, this anger, this rage that was like the ceaseless movement of the spring winds through the… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Whole world 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
“Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be". And then she said, "Déjate querer.” Let yourself be loved” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Life 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 Copy Share Image
“Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Children 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 Truth Copy Share Image
“I wondered what it was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could find all the mysteries of the universe in… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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 Copy Share Image
“I like the old words better. They're like old friends.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Friendship Copy Share Image
