When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.
Junot DiazYou try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheaterโs heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
Junot Diazbut back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
Junot Diaz