A person doesn't mourn forever.
Junot DíazThis is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
Junot DíazWe’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.
Junot DíazTag: dark-humor
...a particularly Jersey malaise--the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.
Junot DíazYou were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.
Junot DíazTag: love attraction
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.
Junot DíazNobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
Junot DíazTag: children
The pejorative parigüayo, Watchers agree, is a corruption of the English neologism "party watcher." The word came into common usage during the First American Occupation of the DR, which ran from 1916-1924. (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.)
Junot DíazTag: humor
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
Junot DíazIt was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.
Junot DíazTag: life-philosophy
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