Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.”

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”

“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”

“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”

“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and over What's so great about a life that's sober? There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun. I'm tired of searching for words in the sky. All I...”