244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

Living is an art, not a science.

That afternoon, I learned two new words. "Inscrutable" and "friend." were were different when they lived inside of you.

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Uno de los secretos del universo era que nuestros instintos a veces eran más fuertes que nuestras mentes.

And then we all just started laughing. We laughed our assesoff. But I knew that really, all three of us were crying. And Iknew there would be tears inside of us all our lives. Because theyjust left. We were even worth a good-bye. Yeah, therewould always be tears inside of us. Because there was an emptyspace inside the three of us that would always belong to theparent who had refused to love us.

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along.