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“But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home.”
“Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.”
“You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldnt call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me ill want to see you every day. At least you were honest, ...”
“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands o...”
“I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?”
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will p...”
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
“My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.”
“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.”
“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”
“She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative...”
“Motherfuckers will read a book thats one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think were taking over.”
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.”
“Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the ...”
“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”
“Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.”
“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”
“She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.”
“For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from whi...”
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”
