Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs. That's the truth. I don't know why, but that's the way truck guys are.
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How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
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Life had its seasons, and the season of letting go would always come, but there was something very beautiful in that, in the letting go. Leaves were always graceful as they floated away from the tree.
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Your body is nothing but a money machine. That’s the way it is. We’re all just prostitutes.
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He drags it out of her, all those feelings she has.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin
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God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
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I don't know. I don't know shit about love. And even though I'm gay, I don't know shit about being gay.
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This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.
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..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE.
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But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
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It could happen anytime. The finger tightens, pulls, and a bullet goes flying through the air. That's how remembering is.
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I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.
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Because rooms were always full, full of memories and voices and people who were either dead or impossible to love.
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I think sometimes our minds get so full of something that we just have to empty them out.
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You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do.
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I want a heart like that, Andy, a heart like a star’s.
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
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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.
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But how did you freeze a heart, the days and weeks and months that made a life?
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I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment.
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Her mother had left a note on the bathroom mirror, written in lipstick: just because my love isn't perfect doesn't mean I don't love you.
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There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart.
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There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.