“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
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Junot Díaz 75
Dominican-American writer 1968Related quotes
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Source: Nausea (1938)
Context: I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”
Source: Candy
On how envisioning an ending allows him to conclude each character’s journey in “Extended interview: Colson Whitehead on writing ‘The Nickel Boys’" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/extended-interview-colson-whitehead-on-writing-the-nickel-boys/ in CBS News (2019 Jul 14)
“When does the improvisation begin? As we started to play or when we started talking about it?”
Interview (May 2007)
