When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like… — 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
“I flip through the book, one of his top three, without question, to the last horrifying chapter: ‘A Stronger Loving World'. To… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet… — Junot Diaz 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
The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — Junot Diaz 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
