Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Quotes
But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
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.
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
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 would show them all.
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.
A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.
That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.
Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.
I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?
But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.
He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves.
...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...