All Junot Diaz Quotes
- When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets. Ask
- You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. Bookstore
- Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe… Always Ended
- I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good. Basically Good
- Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your… Dating
- That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. Heads
- It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it. Day
- Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper,… Baby
- She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree. Inspirational
- In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart… All
- I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day… All
- I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. Changes
- I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from… Every Now
- The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence. Ain T
- And because love, real love, is not so easily shed. Easily
- Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either. Bullshit
- I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. Become Permanent
- She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing. Bad
- You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come. Ex
- She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. Girlfriend