Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

"If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge."

"Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten."

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

"That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough."

"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."

"Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often."

"That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough."