Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I’d watched them in all their beautiful courage. I’d watched them as they struggled through their hurts and their wounds.
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And everything in the world that mattered was in the happy stories Andrés was telling. And everything in the world was Ileana listening to the brother she loved. And everything in the world was waiting.
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Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roads And bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.
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But you know we’re always going to have to rely on the goodwill of those of you who are straight for our survival. And that’s the damned truth.
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Maybe kissing was part of the human condition.
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I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
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The heart, yeah, sometimes I didn’t get it. But if we were making each other laugh and smile, maybe it was part of the way human beings loved each other.
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God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice.
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The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.
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Love is a storm that twists and mangles us. If you love—if you really love—if you have that kind of heart—then you know. (And if you don’t, there is no explaining.) The storm comes from within. There is nothing you can do to prepare.
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And every time I did spectacularly well in my classes, and I'm here to tell you that I did spectacularly well, I could always see the look of surprise on my professors' faces. You don't think I noticed? What you saw on Dave's face, I saw every damned day of my academic career. So what, Andres? I wanted to do something, to be something - and I did it. I don't think I deserve a medal, and I don't think I'm particularly special. I wanted to do something, and I figured out a way to do it.
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Everywhere you went, you left something behind. Maybe someday he would come back and get it.
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The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.
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He knew that an angel would give his mother a light, because she’d been good. And she would share the light with his father. Because that’s the way she was.
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Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.
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You are thirst and thirst is all I know.
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Somehow I’d hoped that this would be the summer that I would discover that I was alive. The world my mom and dad said was out there waiting for me. That world doesn’t actually exist.
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Maybe I was a little superior. But I don't think I was superior. I just didn't understand how to talk to them, how to be myself around them. Being around other guys didn't make me feel smarter. Being around other guys made me feel stupid and inadequate. It was like they were all part of this club and I wasn't a member.
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I think you love him more than you can bear.
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There’s always a but when you’re losing an argument.
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Love is work, amor. It's not something that just happens.
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Bullshit, Ari. You have the harder rule to follow? Buffalo shit. Coyote shit. All you have to do is be loyal to the most brilliant guy you've ever met—which is like walking barefoot through the park. I, on the other hand, have to refrain from kissing the greatest guy in the universe—which is like walking barefoot on hot coals.
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
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Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be.” And then she said, “Déjate querer.” Let yourself be loved.