Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.""I know, " she said. "Try to do it behind my back, will you?¨You can bet on that, Mom.¨We both sat there and laughed.

I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow.

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.

Feeling sorry for myself was an art.

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.

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

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.

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

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.

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.