Junot Diaz Quotes

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.

It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one!

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

As goes love so goes life.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.

You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

Friendship is the union of spirits.