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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I felt alone, but not in a bad way. I really liked being alone. Maybe I liked it too much. Maybe — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I want to live in the calmness of the morning light. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she'd had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent - like a scar or an immutable tattoo. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Nothing. It's just that most smart people are perfect shits. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

We looked at each other. We didn't really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The problem with parents is that they're adults. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Birds exist to teach us things about the sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I'd grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

But why? Why don't I want to fight when fight is all I've ever known and loved? I've fought for every inch of joy I've ever known. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

[He] was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Her fading voice was the one I heard the loudest. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Everywhere you went, you left something behind. Maybe someday he would come back and get it. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

They broke more than his ribs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

And why were the voices there, but he knew why and he knew they would always be there, the voices, knocking at his door, taking over his house. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Salvation is too heavy a load for a child to carry. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

What did words matter to a desert? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You are what you remember. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Have you noticed that some people don't give
A damn and just keep on shopping? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

. . . Alive
is a place. Alive is the new word for home. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I don't always have to understand the people I love. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I loved the different rules of summer. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn't going away anytime soon. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults."
"You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I think of their anger as a wind. And that wind took them away. From me. And all the others like me. So — Benjamin Alire Saenz

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Her laugh was as fragile as the leaves she had raked when I was five. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

So," I said, "the only way for me to arrive at angel status is to appear in your screwed-up dreams."
"Take it any way you can get it, babe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

They cracked more than his ribs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

...and I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Yeah," I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get
and never would get. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?" "I'm an educated woman. That doesn't un-Mexicanize me, Ari. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It was warm in the kitchen and I felt safe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

And then Fito sort of hung his head and he was blinking his eyes, like he was trying to blink away all the tears that he'd held inside all his life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wish I didn't have a heart that God wrote Sad on. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?"
"Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You belong everywhere you go. That's just how you are. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted - because the light was gone. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody's theme song. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The world had changed. And this new world was quiet and sad. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I noticed his smile was a little sad. Maybe everyone was a little sad. Maybe so. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The storm was fierce. But I wasn't afraid. I knew my father's love was fiercer than any storm. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Do you think the heart needs love to keep on beating? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Don't ever underestimate the people who love you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Like a girl, but a girl who had always been a woman. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Your body is nothing but a money machine." That's what Uncle Rudy says. "That's the way it is. We're all just prostitutes. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I'm trying not to be ashamed... — Benjamin Alire Saenz

There are worst things in life than kissing boys — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Dejate querer. Let yourself be loved. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Because you didn't need words when you were sitting in the light. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

This boy would dream her forever. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

He drags it out of her, all those feelings she has. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That's what he was. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful
Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It was like letting go of the sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You don't deserve this, Brian. I wanted to shove that phrase into his heart. But I knew he'd always believe that he did deserve what he got. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You know what the worst thing about adults is?"

"No."

"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz