Junot Díaz Short Quotes

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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

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She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

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Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

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You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

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You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

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She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

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You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

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The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

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But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

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When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

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If you think learning salsa is your future, you're going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.

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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

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But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

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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.

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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 you?

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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

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