244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

¿Crees, Ari, que el amor tenga algo que ver con los secretos del universo?

Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards.

Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.

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.

Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

Ari?” My father’s voice was soft. “Ari, Ari, Ari. You’re fighting this war in the worst possible way.” “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.

Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't takeThe freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roadsAnd bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.

The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, 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.