Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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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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. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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He didn’t know anyone could cry like that. A wind was coming from inside her.
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I wondered if happiness would go away when she died.
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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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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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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.
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Two guys without a life? How much fun could that be?
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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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Maybe I’d always had the wrong idea as to who I really was.
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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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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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You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.
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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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People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy.
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It was as if she was becoming the light.
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Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.