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Junot Díaz

This Is How You Lose Her – Exp

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  • Мариhas quoted8 years ago
    Revenge is living well, without you.
  • Daniela Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    There should be stars for great wars
  • b6743928680has quoted6 years ago
    Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it’s worth.
  • b6743928680has quoted6 years ago
    She’s sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    That’s about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace—and because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    There are surprises and there are surprises and then there is this.
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    And (c) you have this ridiculous hope that maybe one day she will forgive you
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    You make it through both semesters, barely. It really is a long stretch of shit and then finally the madness begins to recede. It’s like waking up from the worst fever of your life. You ain’t your old self (har-har!) but you can stand near windows without being overcome by strange urges, and that’s a start. Unfortunately, you’ve put on forty-five pounds. You don’t know how it happened but it happened. Only one pair of your jeans fits anymore, and none of your suits. You put away all the old pictures of her, say good-bye to her Wonder Woman features. You go the barber,
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    You stop sleeping, and some night when you’re drunk and alone you have a wacky impulse to open the window of your fifth-floor apartment and leap down to the street
  • Leida Castellanoshas quoted7 years ago
    Mejor que nunca.
    Except you’re not.
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