Junot Diaz quotes

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. (Junot Diaz)
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever. View quote
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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. View quote
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It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it. View quote
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You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. View quote
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... sometimes a start is all we ever get. View quote
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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good. View quote
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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. View quote
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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you. View quote
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If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. View quote
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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work. (Junot Diaz)
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. View quote
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It's never the changes we want that change everything. View quote
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And because love, real love, is not so easily shed. View quote
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You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come. View quote
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The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence. View quote
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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. View quote
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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. View quote
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Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. View quote
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What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. View quote
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Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. (Junot Diaz)
That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough. View quote
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either. View quote
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. View quote
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Nothing more exhilarating... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. View quote
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