“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Instincts 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 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 Copy Share Image
“That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Brother 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 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
“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
“He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“He got out of the car. He stood out in the heat. I knew he was trying to organize himself. Like a… — 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… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Language Copy Share Image
“It makes me angry that you hate yourself for something that somebody else made you do. Don't let them take any more.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Angry Copy Share Image
“The thing is I love my dad. My mom too. And I keep wondering what they're going to say when I tell… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I'd never really been very close to other people. I was pretty much a loner. I'd played baseball and done the Cub… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Boy scout 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
“I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Black clouds 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 Copy Share Image
“God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Hope Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz 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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“Dogs don't censor themselves. Maybe animals were smarter than people. The dog was so happy. My mom and dad too. It felt… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Animal 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
“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 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
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Forgetting Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t decide if the dream was a good dream or a bad dream. Maybe a good dream because when I woke… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bad dream 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 guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either. I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“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 Outrage 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 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/i/6df/benjamin-alire-s-enz-1125_language_i-wanted-to-feel-those-words-in-my-mouth_2292345.png)
