Junot Díaz Quotes - Page 2

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity.
Maybe she just doesn't like children.
Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

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

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.

This is how you lose her.