Junot Diaz Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

  Junot Diaz

  Home, Light, Irises

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.41, Faber & Faber

• I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

  Junot Diaz

  Powerful, Home, Leaving

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

• You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Hurt, Home

  Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

• [Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Home, College

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