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Junot Dìaz Quotes

Total quotes: 44
“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.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Judgement, Society
“She has a mouth like unswept glass – when you least expect it she cuts you.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Words are Powerful, Hurtful Words
“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?”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Misery, Complicated Life, Confusion
“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Escaping Reality, Adulthood, Path of Life
“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
“I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn’t it?”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Love, staring, Beginning, Waiting
“You can’t find intimacy–you can’t find home–when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”
— Junot Dìaz, Junot Diaz Interview- Identity Theory
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Fear And Love, vulnerability, vulnerability in love
“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: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Exes, Gone, Leaving
“You'd still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Love
“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
“But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Love, First Days, heart
“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: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Exes
“She just seemed to take it, never gave anything off, not light, not heat.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Cope, Dealing, Life, Death, Bad News
“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
“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
“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
“I didn’t tell anyone I tried to kill myself. Something else I buried deep.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
Tagged: Trauma, PTSD, Abuse
“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
“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: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Love, expressions, Gestures
“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
“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. You never get over it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Getting Over it, Couples, Dating, Relationships, Power
“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
“Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided.

This, I told her, is how I feel.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, Dating, Feelings, Love, Strong Love, emotions
“We hurt each other too well to let it drop.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: It's Over, Losing Her, Relationships, hurt, Pain, Letting Go
“You wonder if she feels like you do. Like it might be love.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Love, first, Relationships, Beginnings
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