“Look him straight in the eye and think, You should be attached to my lips by now; why aren't you? Trust me, he'll read your thoughts like they're projected above your head on a wide-screen.”— Erin Dailey, marieclaire.com
“Suddenly I wanted to go over and hug her, for no other reason than I loved her.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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.com
“...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.com
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“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.com
“...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 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
“If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?”— Daniel Jones, nytimes.com
“If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?”— Daniel Jones, nytimes.com
“I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.”— Amit Kalantri, amazon.com
“If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?”— Amit Kalantri, amazon.com
“As Romeo is dying Juliet says ‘I am willing to die to remain by your side’ and love was never a static place of rest but the last second of euphoria while throwing yourself out from a 20 store window to be able to say ‘I flew before I hit the ground’, and it was glorious. Don’t be sorry. The fall wa…”— Charlotte Erickson, goodreads.com