Quotes from Junot Diaz

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

It took me sixteen years to write.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

I love "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." That was like the only black book we read in high school...

You 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.

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

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.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

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.