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Benjamin Alire Sáenz Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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