Junot Díaz

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

“Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.”

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

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.”