Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

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

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

I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn't write beautiful on my heart. I'm stuck with all my bad dreams. Bad dreams for bad boys. I guess that's the way it is for me. Look, there's nothing I can do about it.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.