“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”

—  Junot Díaz , book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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