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121 " Accidents are the cruel part of life. It's part of the equation of this thing we call living. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
122 " I liked the way he looked at me. I thought he was the kindest man in the world. Maybe everybody was kind. Maybe even my father. But Mr. Quintana was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. Dante was just like him. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
123 " I needed to stop analyzing myself.I didn't have the credentials to be my own therapist. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
124 " People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , He Forgot to Say Goodbye
125 " It was fun, wasn't it?'The way he said that. Like he knew we would never play that game again. We were too old now. We'd lost something and we both knew it. "
126 " The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I was pretty good at trees. I sucked at drawing faces. But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life. "
127 " The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across a dessert sky. "
128 " And I thought about how life was like the weather, it could change, and how Dante had moods that were pure as a blue sky and sometimes they were dark like a storm and that maybe, in some ways, he was just like me, and maybe that wasn’t such a good thing - but maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing either. People were complicated. I was complicated. Dante, he was complicated, too. People - they were included in the mysteries of the universe. What mattered is that he was an original. That he was beautiful and human and real and I loved him - and I didn’t think anything would ever change that. "
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
129 " Jaime and I have always believed that a parent holds a sacred office. And we will never abdicate or resign from that office just because things get difficult. "
130 " You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are. "
131 " I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me. "
132 " Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that’s all that matters "
133 " Someday, I’m going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.” “I know,” she said. “Try and do it behind my back, will you?” “You can bet on that, Mom.” We both sat there and laughed. (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - page 171) "
134 " I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break. "
135 " I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs. "
136 " You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that I am reading. You're every poem I've ever loved. "
137 " He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that maybe he was changing into someone else. Everyone was always becoming someone else. "
138 " Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed. Had I been hurt? Had I healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing. "
139 " My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem--for you anyway--is that you're in love with him. "
140 " A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites "