Frases de Junot Díaz

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“Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.”

“Se suponía que al crecer uno perdiera la capacidad de dormir con facilidad en lugares nuevos, pero yo nunca la tuve como para perderla.”

“Nunca son los cambios que queremos los que cambian todo.”

“desapariciones. La dejaban en mala posición ante La Inca y los vecinos, que siempre le preguntaban”

“cada vez que la soledad se te mete por dentro como un continente en llamas, te amarras los cordones de los tenis y te das a la fuga por los senderos y eso ayuda, de verdad que ayuda.”

“Al fin y al cabo, al éxito le encanta tener testigos, pero el fracaso no puede existir sin ellos”

“Ese muchacho está bueno!”

“El mundo tiene suficientes tragedias como para que no sea necesario recurrir a las maldiciones en busca de explicación.”

“¿Quieres saber de verdad cómo se siente un X-Man? d Entonces conviértete en un muchacho de color, inteligente y estudioso, en un ghetto contemporáneo de Estados Unidos. ¡Mamma mía! Es como si tuvieras alas de murciélago o un par de tentáculos creciéndote en el pecho.”

“Los que menos corren, vuelan”

“Muchacho del diablo!”

“una maldita borracha”

“Tú ta llorando por una muchacha?”

“Ella nunca hablaba de lo que eran; sólo decía, ¡Man, me alegro tanto de haberte conocido! Y él contestaba, Y yo de ser quien soy conociéndote.”

“En el Caribe cuando alguien habla bien tiene el respeto de la gente y de pequeño yo veía eso y me encantaba. Supongo que como a nosotros nos impusieron ese idioma colonial [el español] la resistencia consistió en eso: “Ok, tengo que aprenderlo, pero lo voy a convertir en oportunidad”.”

“Clavo saca clavo.
Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”

“The beauty! The beauty!”

“The half life of love is forever.”

“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves?”

“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.”

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

“… one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.”

“If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.”

“I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you know, I went to school and it was basically the same. I went to college; it was basically the same, where largely I wasn't really encouraged to imagine women as fully human. I was in fact pretty much — by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV — encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men. And so I think that a lot of guys, part of our journey is wrestling with, coming to face, our limited imagina[tion] and growing in a way that allows us not only to imagine women as fully human, but to imagine the things that we do to women — that we often do blithely, without thinking, we just sort of shrug off — as actually deeply troubling and as hurting another human being. And this seems like the simplest thing. A lot of people are like, 'Really, that's like a huge leap of knowledge, of the imagination?”

“Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we’re interpreting the morality of immigrants is Chaucer.”

“We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is how this shit resides in us, how this just lives in us, man, even if we’re the good guy – it should give a motherfucker pause.”

“This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”