“ 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.… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of theuniverse, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been soclose and yet I had always fought them witho… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ 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 t… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I wished it was raining," he said."I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better dea… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was? Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ 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. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ 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… 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. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like… Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“ I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
