398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus??.

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.

One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

Read more than you write, live more than you read

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.