Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
-
I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.
-
I’m not into all this academic stuff. Too much analysis. What ever happened to reading a book because you liked it?
-
I think it means that it’s not other people who make you feel like you’re alone. You do it to yourself.
-
Change is overrated.
-
My father nodded. Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem--for you anyway--is that you're in love with him.
-
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
-
I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
-
It was like letting go of the sky.
-
Sam, she was smart as hell. And she knew stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. She also felt stuff. Oh, man, could Sam feel. Sometimes I thought she was doing all the thinking, all the feeling, and all the living for both of us.
-
Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
-
As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be as miserable as I was.
-
And what constituted a cure? What was healing for a damaged human being? Who needed help and who didn’t? And anyway, was there really a cure for the truly hurt? People could be totaled, just like cars.
-
I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn't know enough to hide their feelings. They existed. A dog was a dog. There was such a simple elegance about being a dog that I envied.
-
There I was. Sitting in my car. In the rain. Talking to Alejandra. And it felt more like home than the place where I slept.
-
A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
-
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
-
We looked at each other. We didn’t really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.
-
Two guys without a life? How much fun could that be?
-
I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
-
I didn't know what to do with that piece of information. So I just kept it inside. That's what I did with everything. Kept it inside.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else. The really great thing about laughing was that it made me forget about the strange and awful feeling in my legs. Even if it was only for a minute.