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.

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.

The problem with parents is that they're adults.

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