“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey in the United States, where Díaz was raised, and it deals with the Dominican Republic experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo. The book chronicles both the life of Oscar de León, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels and with falling in love, as well as the curse that has plagued his family for generations.
“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”
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“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves?”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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