Quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Absent parents aren’t abusive per se. They’re neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they’re not parents in the way that we might think of it.

Daughter

Son

Thinking

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.

Pain

Secret

Summer

For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.

Being Sad

Long

Would Be

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Jobs

Life

Thinking

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

Character

Flaws

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Book

Thinking

Writing

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

Beautiful

Bigs

Smile

I’m an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don’t believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I’m an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can’t talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?

Believe

Mean

Teaching

If you want to be a writer, you don’t want to live in a comfortable place.

Comfortable

Ifs

Want

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

Fake People

Fake World

Thinking

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Being Sad

Believe

Bigs

Book

Character

Cold

Comfortable

Confused

Country

Daughter

Different

Fake People

Fake World

Flaws

Heart

Ifs

Jobs

Life

Long

Mean

Pain

Real

Secret

Smile

Son

Summer

Swimming

Teaching

Thinking

Want

Water

Way

Winter

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Quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Absent parents aren’t abusive per se. They’re neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they’re not parents in the way that we might think of it.

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.

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

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

If you want to be a writer, you don’t want to live in a comfortable place.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

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