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Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Careful, People, Words, rare, Beautiful
“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Tagged: Loneliness, Sorrow, Human Emotions, Forgetting The Past
“Okay is just a word I use so I won’t have to talk about what’s inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Tagged: Okay, Secrets
“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Wonders of Nature, Natural Disaster
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Solitude, Relationship
“People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Tagged: familiar, struggles, People, Problems, Recognition
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Tagged: Summer, Summer Feels, Summer's Song
“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I awoke.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Summer, Hope, Desire, Better world, Waking Up
“I mean, sometimes remembering can really destroy you.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, He Forgot to Say Goodbye
Tagged: Memories
“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, He Forgot to Say Goodbye
Tagged: Happiness, Intimacy, kiss, Love, romance, Sadness
“I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Silence, Solitude, Desire
“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Concept of Love, Heavy Breathing
“I didn't know I’d fallen in love with him, though of course I had, didn’t begin to know it until I sat next to him, smoking a cigarette on the back steps of my apartment on that cloudy day in August just before the rains came.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Falling In Love, Accidental Love, August, Summer
“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you’re thinking but because you’re feeling. Because you’re feeling too much. And you can’t always control the things you do when you’re feeling too much.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Feelings, emotions
“I loved mornings—the only time of the day that I was free from the prison of words.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Words, Writing, mornings, Bound By Words
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“There is something compelling and seductive about a dangerous sky. The dark clouds made the city appear ancient and wise and civilized, made the buildings look like abandoned ruins that kept all the secrets of the dead.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Beautiful Language, Sky, Night Sky, Dangerous Sky, Storms, Thunderstorms
“...I don't always have to understand the people I love.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Understanding Another Person, understanding your loved ones, People, Loved Ones, Human Behavior, Human Connection, Love & Connection, Love & Relationships
“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Life
“Storms and wars were always beginning and always ending, and we lived our lives in the aftermath. There must’ve already been some kind of body count. What was it about us that we measured our catastrophes in bodies? Maybe it consoled those of us who survived.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Storms, Thunderstorms, After The Storm, surviving
“I wanted to tell him I cared too much. What I didn’t care about was picking up a guy for a night. Maybe I was going through a phase, but love for a night wasn’t love, and taking a stranger to bed wasn’t any different than buying a lottery ticket. Did you really expect to win?”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Love, Love For The Night, Hookup, Love & Sex
“I wanted to be a part of the fearless storm, to be one with it, to refuse to see myself as its passive victim or its naive, romantic worshipper falling down on my knees in a humility I didn’t possess. I wanted to be a part of the order and the chaos, the violence and the raging waters.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine
Tagged: Storms, Thunderstorms, After The Storm, surviving, Part Of The Storm
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Adventure, Summer Adventures, Hope, Believe
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