Children Quotes by Junot Diaz

13 Children quotes by Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz’s take on childhood bursts with raw energy and cultural nuance. The brief collection captures his knack for turning everyday moments into sharp, relatable snapshots of growing up.

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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

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Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

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I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes…

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“...maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

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“That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.”

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“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled…

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There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're…

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“Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and…

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“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with…

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What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her…

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“You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that.…

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“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one…

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“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.…

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“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

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I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that…

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“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran…

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You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree…

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“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own…

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If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

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“If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.”

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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

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