Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her Quotes
Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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.
It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.
My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.
And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.
She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.
Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.