Junot Diaz Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

  Junot Diaz

  Lying, Heart, Cheater

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.123, Faber & Faber

• You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

  Junot Diaz

  Girl, Falling In Love, Heart

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.88, Faber & Faber

• but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

  Junot Diaz

  Heart, Firsts, Eating

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.35, Faber & Faber

• ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

  Junot Diaz

  Lonely, Heart, Air

• You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

  Junot Diaz

  Lying, Book, Writing

• Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

  Junot Diaz

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.27, Faber & Faber

• So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

  Junot Diaz

  Girl, Heart, Boys

• I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

  Junot Diaz

  Heart, Character, Matter

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

• The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Heart, Echoes

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