244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I had 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

Accidents are the cruel part of life. It's part of the equation of this thing we call living.

I knew I’d gone crazy but I couldn’t explain it to myself. Maybe that’s what happens when you go crazy. You just can’t explain it. Not to yourself. Not to anyone. And the worst part about going crazy is that when you’re not crazy anymore, you just don’t know what to think of yourself.

a veces cuando la gente habla, no siempre dice la verdad.

The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across a dessert sky.

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.

I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something really beautiful inside him. Just because no one else could see it didn't mean it wasn't there.

El problema con mi vida era que se le había ocurrido a alguien más.

He got out of the car. He stood out in the heat. I knew he was trying to organizehimself. Like a messy room that needed to be cleaned up. I left him alone for a while. But then, Idecided I wanted to be with him. I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leavingeach other alone was killing us.