Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.
Junot DiazYou 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 DiazOf course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
Junot DiazThe anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
Junot DiazLove is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.
Junot Diaz