Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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We looked at each other. We didn’t really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.
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I realized that Sam wasn’t angry at all. She was hurt. At that moment I heard all the hurt she’d ever held. And it seemed to me that the whole house had quieted down to listen to her pain.
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I wanted to tell her that I thought she had a beautiful heart.
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Two guys without a life? How much fun could that be?
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. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.
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I'm trying not to be ashamed...
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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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Who hurt you? When did it happen? How many times? Where? Tell me. Why do you hate yourself? Where do you keep the hurt?
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He didn’t know anyone could cry like that. A wind was coming from inside her.
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
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All my friends thought I was a very happy human being. Because that's how I acted- like a really happy human being. But all that pretending made me tired. If I acted the way I felt, then I doubt my friends would have really hung out with me. So the pretending wasn't all bad. The pretending made me less lonely. But in another was, it made me more lonely because I felt like a fraud. I've always felt like a fake human being.
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You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.
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No one can run from a storm.
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Letting someone touch you in the place where it hurts the most, if I could do that, if I could just do that, well, that would mean I was alive.
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People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy.
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She looked into my eyes. I wanted to look away. But I didn't. Her eyes were like the night sky in the desert. It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.
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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.
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Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.
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Maybe I’d always had the wrong idea as to who I really was.
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I wondered if happiness would go away when she died.
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It was as if she was becoming the light.
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She wrapped her hands around my face and looked into my eyes. Her hands were old, but they were the softest, kindest hands that had ever touched me. She didn’t say anything. She just smiled.