Benjamin Alire Saenz famous quotes

03-28-2025

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Heart #Winter #Cold
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 Saenz

#Summer #Book #Believe
Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Fake People #Thinking #World
You are thirst and thirst is all I know
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Thirst
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldnâ€™t last for very long and Iâ€™d be sad again and then it would be worse because itâ€™s one thing to be sad and itâ€™s another thing to be sad once youâ€™ve been happy. Being sad after youâ€™ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Long #Being Sad #Would Be
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.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Swimming #Water #Way
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.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Life #Storm #World
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Life #Confused #Heart
I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Smile #Beautiful #My Smile
I wondered what that was like, to hold someoneâ€™s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someoneâ€™s hand.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Hands #Mystery #Sometimes
But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Heavy
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Different
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Summer #Pain #Secret
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Summer #Rain #Boys
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Addiction #Quitting #Lifetime
I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Life #Jobs #Thinking

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