244 Quotes by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.

Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.

Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you are feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.

See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling. And it doesn’t. It’s a shortcut.

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

If you make a mistake, don't live in it.

It's hard to fix a heart when it's been so damaged.