Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The hurt means you loved someone. That you really loved someone.
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Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
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I think I was trying to make my life uncomplicated because everything inside of me was so confusing.
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We laughed again. We couldn’t stop. I wondered what it was we were laughing about. Was it just our names? Were we laughing because we were relieved? Were we happy? Laughter was another one of life’s mysteries.
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The world had changed. And this new world was quiet and sad.
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Like an animal. As if people weren’t animals. She tried to put a face on him. His eyes would betray the chaos of his heart, the riots that were exploding everywhere inside him. His eyes would be so black that they would shine blue in the sun.
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I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
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The Sam I knew was never in control of her emotions. But on that day she was wearing dignity. So much more beautiful than pearls.
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It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue.
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Smiles are like that. They come and go.
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A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
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My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
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The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.
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When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.
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I can prove there are madmen—but I can't prove the monster exists. Who was it that whispered the warning? Listen close, the sky is falling.
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Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
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You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.
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Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck.
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Do you think, Ari, that love has anything to do with the secrets of the universe? I don’t know. Maybe.
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You know, it was beautiful to be in that kitchen just then. I guess there are times of quiet beauty in life.
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I could have asked my father lots of questions. I could have. But there was something in his face and eyes and in his crooked smile that prevented me from asking. I guess I didn’t believe he wanted me to know who he was. So I just collected clues. Watching my father read that book was another clue in my collection. Some day all the clues would come together. And I would solve the mystery of my father.
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Show me a man without regrets and I’ll show you a man without a conscience.