398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

I mean, I’m an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does – it is astonishing.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn’t have a safe category.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

I’m not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

She’s sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

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

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.