Quotes by : Junot Díaz

Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in....

We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what....

...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

I figured this staying up meant something. Maybe it was loss or love or some other word that we say when....

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning....

He whistles. Que viva Colombia. Hands you back the Book. You really should write the cheater's guide....

I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call....

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.

There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of....