Zitate von Junot Díaz

„But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„It's never the changes we want that change everything.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„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, buch 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’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„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.“

—  Junot Díaz

„… sometimes a start is all we ever get.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.

This is how you lose her.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

„You can't regret the life you didn't lead.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao