Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes

This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

There are worst things in life than kissing boys.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I used to be didn’t exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn’t exist yet.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was my version of looking for Easter eggs. In my house, Easter lasted forever.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

What is it with you and that book?Rafael laughed. We have a personal relationship.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz