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The only way out is in.
Anger has a way of returning.
A person doesn't mourn forever.
The half-life of love is forever.
Character is the plot in many ways
It took me sixteen years to write.
I'm a product of a fragmented world.
You can't be a human without seeing.
...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
Privilege does not operate without silence.
I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.
Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.
I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
It's never the changes we want that change everything.
I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.
Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.
What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).
Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.
Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.
The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.
We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.