Junot Díaz

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

The half-life of love is forever.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

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.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third elvish, but put two sentences in spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over."

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