Junot Díaz: Quotes about life

Junot Díaz is Dominican-American writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Life , God , Loss

“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 Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Life , Thinking , Happiness

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Life , Waiting

“The half life of love is forever.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Variant: The half-life of love is forever.
Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Love , Life

“This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”

Junot Díaz

Profile in Playboy magazine (August 2013) http://www.playboy.com/articles/junot-diaz-brief-history

Courage , Life