Junot Diaz Quotes

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• In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write… Book
• Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa. Africa
• That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think… All
• As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. Atomically
• Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time… Adolescence
• Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. Call
• Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. Anybody
• 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. Better
• The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it. Arrested
• What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that… Children
• The half-life of love is forever. Forever
• ...sometimes a start is all we ever get. All
• She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper. Hurt
• And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. Beginning
• Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so… Ability
• You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could… Better
• Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. Caught
• Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is… Baby
• Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work. Anxiety
• Anger has a way of returning. Anger

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