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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Ma

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

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Tagged: Love, Encouragement

“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”

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Tagged: Change, Reality

“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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Tagged: Empathy, Advice, Judgement

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.”

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Tagged: Youth, Love, Loss, Young Love

“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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Tagged: Learning, Stay, Fight

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

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Expectation, Reality

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

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Possibility, Someone to lean on, Relationship

“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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Tagged: Experience, growing-up, humor, Knowing

“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”

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Tagged: Life Quotes, Wise Quotes

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Judgement, Society

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

Tagged: Regret, Relationship, Loss And Love

“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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Tagged: Escaping Reality, Adulthood, Path of Life

“Her tetas were globes so implausibly titanic they made generous souls pity their bearer and drove every straight male in their vicinity to reevaluate his sorry life.”

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Tagged: Big Breasts

“All those people have families, you can tell by their faces, they have families that depend on them and that they depend on, and for some of them this is good, and for some of them this is bad. But it all amounts to the same shit because there isn’t one of them who is free. They can’t do what they w…”

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Tagged: Freedom, Biological Chains, Orphans, Family

“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”

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Tagged: Change, Unexpected Things, Unsplash + QC

“You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”

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“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.”

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Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Life, Enough

“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.”

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Tagged: 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.”

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Tagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions