244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.

You know what the worst thing about adults is?""No.""They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.

Once you say something, you can't ever take it back.

In the end, life and death are mysteries.

All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of theuniverse, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been soclose and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, Ihad 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.

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help," he said."I don't know how to do that, either.

Life wasn't always about deserve.

Life wasn't all nice and neat like a book and life didn't have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things.