Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
Junot DíazStichwörter: humor science-fiction adolescence ray-bradbury nerdiness
The word came into common usage during the First American Occupation of the DR, which ran from 1916 to 1924. (You didn't know we were occupied twice in the twentieth century? Don't worry, when you have kids they won't know the U.S. occupied Iraq either.) During the First Occupation it was reported that members of the American Occupying Forces would often attend Dominican parties but instead of joining in the fun the Outlanders would simply stand at the edge of dances and watch. Which of course must have seemed like the craziest thing in the world. Who goes to a party to watch?
Junot DíazShe had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
Junot DíazStichwörter: doubt planning relationships trust action doing
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
Junot DíazIf you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
Junot DíazStichwörter: humor growing-up experience judgment knowing
Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.
Junot DíazHappiness, when it comes, is stronger than all the jerk girls in Santo Domingo combined.
Junot DíazFor Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants.
Junot DíazStichwörter: school schools nerd nerds schooling geeks nerdiness geek
The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.
Junot DíazMy African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.
Junot DíazStichwörter: africa black caribbean republic latino dominican afro
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