398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end – whether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

Character is the plot in many ways.

I can always tell if someone’s from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we’re not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we’re in.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

Privilege does not operate without silence.