Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Scars. A sign that you've been hurt. A sign that you have been healed. Had I been hurt? Had I been healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
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When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
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His shoes on the front porch before he came inside. The Japanese do that. They don’t bring the dirt of the world into another person’s house.
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I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.
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Some people are so beautiful that they belong everywhere they go.
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I knew I’d gone crazy but I couldn’t explain it to myself. Maybe that’s what happens when you go crazy. You just can’t explain it. Not to yourself. Not to anyone. And the worst part about going crazy is that when you’re not crazy anymore, you just don’t know what to think of yourself.
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I guess that was going to be my new thing. I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.
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I fell in love with the thunder.
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Don’t, amor. Te adoro. I’ve already lost a son. I’m not going to lose another. You’re not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you’re not.” “How can you love me so much?” “How could I not love you? You’re the most beautiful boy in the world.
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I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
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She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That’s what he was.
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And then Fito sort of hung his head and he was blinking his eyes, like he was trying to blink away all the tears that he’d held inside all his life.
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Right then I witnessed the world they lived in go completely silent. The world was flooding with their tears.
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Had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words is different.
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Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings.
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A country will never love you like a woman.
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I closed my eyes and let the water rush over me and I wondered what it would be like to be as soft as water, to make people clean, to quench people's thirst. That would be a beautiful thing, to be like water.
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I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
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The problem with parents is that they're adults.
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Salvation is too heavy a load for a child to carry.
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Sam had once told him that the shape of the human heart changed every time it loved someone.
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My life was still someone else's idea.
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Grace, too, gives me hope. She is still so beautiful. She shaved her head, and I can see the sun there.
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See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.