Junot Diaz Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Long, Parent

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

• Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Husband, Believe

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.88, Faber & Faber

• Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

  Junot Diaz

  Mother, Children, Mean

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.90, Faber & Faber

• What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Husband, Father

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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