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Junot Dìaz Quotes

Total quotes: 44
“It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Happiness, Hope, prayer, Faith, Life
“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 own.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, beauty, selflessness, Relationships
“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Summer, Growing Up, Hope, Future
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Love, Relationship, Dating
“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic
“Learning to sleep in new places was an ability you were supposed to lose as you grew older, but I never had it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Sleep, Growing Up, Change, ability
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Loneliness, Break Up, Sad, Heartbreak, Love, Relationship, Abandonment
“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die...This is how you lose her.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, Breaking Up, Endings, Sadness, This Is How You Lose Her, Dating
“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.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, Breaking Up, Endings, Sadness, This Is How You Lose Her, Dating, Exes
“Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about—he wasn’t no home-runner hitter or fly bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: first lines of books
“I had an IQ that would have broken you in two but I would have traded it in for a halfway decent face in a second.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Smart People, Smart But Ugly, IQ Quotes
“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions
“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 be again.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, affection, romance, Dating, Breaking Up, Getting Back Together
“You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Traveling, Exploring, The World, Experiences
“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.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Loneliness, Break Up, Sad, Heartbreak, Love, Relationship
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Break Up, Sad, The End, Relationships, Moving On
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: girlfriends, Relationships, Girls, Dating, Love, Loss, Heartbreak, Sadness
“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest...”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic, heart, Laughter
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, Dating, Love, romance, Girls, Falling In Love
“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 own.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, affection, romance, Dating, Selfless
“Suddenly I wanted to go over and hug her, for no other reason than I loved her.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, affection
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, Youth, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Sex, Make Up, Make Up Sex, Fucking, How Relationships Work
“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 there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Life, Happiness, Loss, Nothingness, Curses
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, break-ups, Endings, Beginnings
“...You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, Dating, Love, romance, Girls, Falling In Love
“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breaking Up, Broken Heart, Numbness
“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Love, Family, Friendships, Unconditional Love
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, humanity, humans, Flaws, Weak, Mistakes, Good At Wine
“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Trying, Working Hard
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”
— Junot Dìaz, Junot Diaz, in conversation at Sydney Writers' Festival
Tagged: Writers, Writing, Novels, Words, Books, Language, Community, Reading
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Break Up, Relaionships, Love, Dating, Moving On, Will Power, Time Heals All Wounds
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Goodness, Identity, Self Improvement, Psychology
“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, humanity, humans, Flaws, hopes, Forever
“Revenge is living well, without you.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, Dating, Breaking Up, Revenge, Exes
“She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, affection, romance, Dating
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions
“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Life, Happiness
“He was totally and irrevocably in love with Ana. What he used to feel for those girls he'd never really known was nothing compared to the amor he was carrying in his heart for Ana. It had the density of a dwarf-motherfucking-star and at times he was a hundred percent sure it would drive him mad.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic
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