Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Light
  • Change
  • Rain