Heart Quotes by Junot Diaz

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

— Junot Diaz

“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

— Junot Díaz

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

— Junot Diaz

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

— Junot Diaz

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

— Junot Diaz

The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Junot Díaz

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what…

— Junot Diaz

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your…

— Junot Diaz

“He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said boo to a loser like…

— Junot Díaz

“But that was before she'd gotten that chest, before that slash of black hair had gone from something to pull on the…

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“Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack…

— Junot Díaz

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his…

— Junot Diaz

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You…

— Junot Diaz

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do…

— Junot Diaz

“...and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated…

— Junot Díaz

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude…

— Junot Diaz