398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other’s arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

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.

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it’s worth.

Anger has a way of returning.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

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

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who’s been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.