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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Junot Dìaz (29)

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

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

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.com

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.com

Love Heartbreak romance Romantic

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

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Happiness Hope prayer Faith Life

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

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

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.

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

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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girlfriends Relationships Girls Dating Love

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

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

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.

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

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