Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Years
  • Theory
  • Believed