You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.
Junot DiazWhen she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
Junot DiazYou keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
Junot DiazI'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably would have just gone to law school. And the scary part is that I was one of those kids who always tested really well. You put a test in front of me, and I would have been like do-do-do-do-do. I probably would have been some community lawyer somewhere - if anything, that's probably what I would have been doing.
Junot Diaz