Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The world had changed. And this new world was quiet and sad.
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Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.
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There are more songs living inside her than there are leaves on her tree.
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So if I don’t write as many letters as you do, don’t be upset. I’m not doing it to upset you, okay? This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I’m not so sure I want to return the favor.
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She could almost see his smile. A sunrise. Breaking the darkness.
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I have this storm inside me. It's trying to kill me. I wonder sometimes if that's such a bad thing. I know about storms. I'm tired. I just want to sleep forever. Maybe I should tell the storm to go ahead and kill me.
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I never cared much for people with money. They were a little too proud of themselves, too entitled. They never entertained the possibility that they might just be overpaid.
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Her eyes were as sad as they were fierce.
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I think I’m the stupidest smart boy who ever lived.
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I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.
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I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.
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I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
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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.
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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.
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
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The hurt means you loved someone. That you really loved someone.
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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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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.
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A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
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You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.
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There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
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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.
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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.