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81 " He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
82 " The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. "
83 " I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
84 " You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. "
85 " 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. "
86 " I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that. "
87 " There are worst things in life than kissing boys. "
88 " When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. "
89 " Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you.” “Okay,” I said. “It’s okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you?” “Yeah, that would be okay,” he said. "
90 " The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Last Night I Sang to the Monster
91 " 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. "
92 " 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. "
93 " 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. "
94 " Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe. "
95 " 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. "
96 " I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable. "
97 " 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. "
98 " People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word. "
99 " Words were different when they lived inside of you. "
100 " I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get. "