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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
“Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
“You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the seams. When my first pen pal, Tomoko, stopped writing me after three letters she was the one who laughed: You think someone's going to lose life writing to you? Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me. My mother of course saw clean into the marrow of those dreams, and laughed. I wouldn't write to you either, she said. She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her. But I'm not going to pretend either. For a long time I let her say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.”
“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.”
“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”
“Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.”
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