“If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“You go to more doctors. You celebrate Arlenny's Ph.D. defense. And then one June night you scribble the ex's name and: The… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would have been the end of all… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“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.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“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… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
![“[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf1/junot-diaz-531_burn-out_immigrating-didn-t-burn-out-my-desire-to_847497.jpg)
