top of page
.png){kind=small}
"In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Observation quotes
"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really its coming on very dark. Do you think it's going to rain?'Tweedledum spread a large umbrella over himself and his brother, and looked up into it.'No, I don't think it is,' he said: 'at least - not under here. Nohow.''But it may rain outside?''It may - if it chooses,' said Tweedledee: 'we've got no objection. Contrariwise."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She's Prim's size in diameter."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. She noticed that every time she breathed out, the surface fogged, and she disappeared from her father's table."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that."
Sadness
"He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him."
Humor
"The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break."
Nature
"How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?"
Love
"So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all."
Reflection
"I thought of what my mom had said. 'You talk like a man.' It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."
Identity
"The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea."
Autonomy
"Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?'Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you."
Loneliness
"I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising."
Recovery
"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."
Recognition
bottom of page