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161 " Clavo saca clavo.Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her. "
― Junot Díaz , This Is How You Lose Her
162 " You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced - like totally utterly convinced - that the world was going to blow itself to pieces. "
163 " I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn't it? "
164 " You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again "
― Junot Díaz , Drown
165 " The beauty! The beauty! "
― Junot Díaz , The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
166 " If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough. "
167 " ...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. "
― Junot Díaz
168 " Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves? "
169 " I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me. "
170 " We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m fifty, this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk. "
171 " When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets. "
172 " Revenge is living well, without you. "
173 " Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving. "
174 " A father is a hard thing to compass. "
175 " When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation. "
176 " The next day you look at the new pages. For once you don't want to burn them or give up writing forever.It's a start, you say to the room....In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace-- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get. "
177 " She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree. "
178 " It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.) "
179 " Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known. "
180 " Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.This is how you lose her. "