Jorge Lebron-Rodriguez > Jorge's Quotes

“The half-life of love is forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.”
― Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (Volume 106)

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“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.”
― Junot Díaz

“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?

There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“If 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 Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“...sometimes a start is all we ever get.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”
― Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“No one ever likes the right person.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing”
― David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

“A man got to have a code. --The Wire”
― David Simon

“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.”
― David Simon

“[Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world.”
― David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

“(sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit)
For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.”
― David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

“It’s good to be good, but it’s better to be lucky.”
― David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

“If you can’t make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“I think we've all lost some sort of feeling”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“There's more hunger in the world than love.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening