398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

I’m an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world – that’s pretty marvelous.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won’t see it often.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

I didn’t start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I’m just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it.