Carlos

“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Love. Oscar knew he should have checked out right then. He liked to kid himself that it was only cold anthropological interest that kept him around to see how it would all end, but the truth was he couldn't extricate himself. He was totally and irrevocably in love with Ana. What he used to feel for those girls he'd never really known was nothing compared to the amor he was carrying in his heart for Ana. It had the density of a dwarf-motherfucking-star and at times he was a hundred percent sure it would drive him mad. The only thing that came close to how he felt about his books; only the combined love he had for everything he'd read and everything he hoped to write came even close.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“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.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her