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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, 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...”

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Tagged: 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.”

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Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, romance, Romantic

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

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Tagged: Happiness, Hope, prayer, Faith, Life

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

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Tagged: Life, Happiness

“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: Life, Happiness, Loss, Nothingness, Curses

“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: girlfriends, Relationships, Girls, Dating, Love

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

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Tagged: Junot Diaz, Change, Life Changes, Transitions

“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.”

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Tagged: first lines of books