Junot Diaz Quotes

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

I have no plans to go public if I get into a relationship. I will do my best to safeguard the privacy of the person I love and respect her feelings.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.

I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.