Sep
18
“I always pictured Yunior as having a lot of problems around intimacy and fucking is how he escapes having to confront himself in intimacy. Because that’s what real intimacy is—having to face yourself in another a person and having to forgive yourself and be forgiven in the process. Real intimacy is about being vulnerable and about being found out. Sure Yunior is the kind of guy who sabotages everything whenever he feels himself threatened by love. Why? Because he knows that love requires vulnerability, it requires letting another person find you out and for most of the book he just can’t go there. He can’t let himself feel the vulnerability that comes with love because if he felt that then he’d have to feel all the vulnerabilities he has repressed throughout his life. In his head that would be too much.”
Jessica Anya Blau | Six Question Sex Interview With Junot Diaz | The Nervous Breakdown
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k i lied but it doesn’t count if i’m reblogging someone else
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I am really looking forward to reading this is how you lose her but I’m almost as excited that a new book means a whole lot of new junot diaz interviews because for real, hearts in my eyes everytime
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