Benjamin Alire Saenz quotes:

Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't takeThe freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roadsAnd bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition."

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

I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things,well,they sneak out of us in our dreams.Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them.The air has to leak out.That's what dreams are.

I guess I did miss Dante-even though i tried hard to not think about him.The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

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

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible. I don't know how to fight it, Dad.You should ask for help, he said.I don't know how to do that, either.

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

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

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

He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it~?