Quotes by Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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 — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
You can't regret the life you didn't lead. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out becau — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghet — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her childr — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, u — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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 mo — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cit — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on h — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed? — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the fir — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her childr — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao