What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
Junot DiazTell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.
Junot DiazInstead of finding himself in nerd heavenโwhere every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play withโhe woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.
Junot DiazYou know how it is when you get back with somebody youโve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again
Junot DiazI always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
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