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- You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You…
- If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
- I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness…
- It's never the changes we want that change everything.
- On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.…
- You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma…
- 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…
- You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell…
- We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time…
- 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…
- You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if…
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