“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.
This is how you lose her.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
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Junot Díaz 75
Dominican-American writer 1968Related quotes

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