Junot Diaz Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Girlfriend, Loss

  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Book by Junot Diaz, words within the cover, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

• Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

  Junot Diaz

  Giving, Answers, Literature

• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

  Junot Diaz

  Relationship, Giving Up, Writing

• 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

• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Memories, Giving, Monsters

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