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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

Junot Diaz
Girl, Falling In Love, Heart
Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.88, Faber & Faber

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Junot Diaz
Heart, Character, Matter
"This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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.

Junot Diaz
Lying, Heart, Cheater
Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.123, Faber & Faber

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Junot Diaz
Girl, Heart, Boys

The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz
Book, Heart, Echoes

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

Junot Diaz
Lonely, Heart, Air

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

Junot Diaz
Heart, Firsts, Eating
Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.35, Faber & Faber

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

Junot Diaz
Fall, Heart, Thinking
Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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