244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

Writing is a journey.

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.

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.