Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Quotes

“I wanted to make her forget. I thought that a guy's kisses could make a girl forget all the bad stuff. Sixteen year old boys don't know shit. How could a tongue down a girl's throat make her forget?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“There's nothing you can smoke or drink that will make you forget, not one damn thing. And that's sad, Sammy.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“I always felt like there was too much of me to stuff into my own flesh. And I wanted to tell her that we who liked words so much, we had so little to say. Julianna was right, words didn't mean as much as I thought.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“I wanted to say all those things to her, but I got so caught up in the conversation I was having with myself that I didn't say anything.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“Maybe thats why he did heroin, because his dreams were too big.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“Hate could make the wings strong too.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“I really did believe that God had planted leaves in our hearts so that we could remember Eden.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“Someone had named the barrio we lived in Hollywood. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was a prayer.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

“The world wasn't all that good to her and she wanted to remind everyone around her, but mostly herself I think, that she was worth something, that the air was hers too, that the ground she walked on was as much hers as it was anybody else's.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood