Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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If there’s no heaven, I don’t really care. Maybe people are heaven, Dad. Some people, anyway. You and Sam and Fito. Maybe you’re all heaven. Maybe everyone’s heaven, and we just don’t know it.
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And like everybody else in the known universe, she didn’t always let herself in on the truth.
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That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?
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My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.
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You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.
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I wondered if happiness would go away when she died.
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I'm trying not to be ashamed...
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Maybe the problem between me and my father was that we were both the same.
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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.
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He was on fire, she could almost touch the rage. He could scare people. He could make anyone afraid, if he wanted to.
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People were wired to hell. He wanted to growl like a rabid mastiff when he heard someone say, "The body is a machine." What asshole thought of that? Screwed up and angry and wanting love, fucking desperate to get it and not knowing how to get it, and willing to do anything just to get a taste of it. Or worse, striking out because you couldn't get it-all that love you wanted. The body was not a machine. Machines and computers, he could deal with. There was always a solution for the problem. What was the solution for him?
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I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.
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When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.
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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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You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are.
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Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she’d had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent—like a scar or an immutable tattoo.
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He didn’t know anyone could cry like that. A wind was coming from inside her.
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..and I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world.
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People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy.
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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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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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No one can run from a storm.
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Two guys without a life? How much fun could that be?
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Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.