“Suddenly I wanted to go over and hug her, for no other reason than I loved her.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, affection
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breaking Up, Broken Heart, Numbness
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, affection, romance, Dating, Selfless
“Revenge is living well, without you.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Dating, Breaking Up, Revenge, Exes
“...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, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Dating, Love, romance, Girls
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Dating, Love, romance, Girls
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.comTagged: Writing, Writers, Novels, Hope
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, humanity, humans, Flaws, Weak
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, break-ups, Endings, Beginnings
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic
“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, amazon.comTagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions
“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Love, Family, Friendships, Unconditional Love
“...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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic, heart
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: girlfriends, Relationships, Girls, Dating, Love
“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, youtube.comTagged: Writers, Writing, Novels, Words, Books
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions
“Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Sex, Make Up, Make Up Sex, Fucking, How Relationships Work
“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, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Break Up, Sad, Heartbreak, Love
“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Alone, Loneliness, Break Up, Sad
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationship, Dating
“You wonder if she feels like you do. Like it might be love.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Love, first, Relationships, Beginnings
“I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it. Unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, c…”— Junot Dìaz, theatlantic.comTagged: Sexism, feminism, Gender Wars, Misogyny
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“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, amazon.comTagged: Life, Happiness, Loss, Nothingness, Curses