قصة أسناني Quotes

“I've always thought that hell is the people you could one day become. The most frightening ones.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“He fell into a solemn silence, which he only eventually broke to say, “I think I’ve become a terrible person. In fact, I’ve become a reptile. Do you know that reptiles are stupid because almost their entire brain capacity is used to feel fear?”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“I’ve always thought that hell is the people you could one day become. The most frightening ones.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“A mi no me afligen esa clase de preocupaciones porque nunca tuve cualidades efímeras. Yo solo tengo de las permanentes
.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“He spoke slowly, as if searching for adjectives in the darkness.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“My notebooks. So sadly full, this one with impotence, the other with empty, pointless waiting. The most difficult of waits, the most painful: the wait for oneself. If I were to write something in it, it would be the confession that I too have been waiting for myself for a long time, and I haven’t turned up. —JOSEFINA VICENS”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“A few minutes afterwards, Siddhartha Sánchez Tostado was born. That’s what Flaca called our son. I, for my part, liked the name Yoko, since I always had been keen on Japanese culture and the Beatles. But as the child was a boy, I had to accept Flaca’s choice.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Other people’s misery and other people’s fortune always put my own into perspective.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“The most important thing in this life... is to have a destiny.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“I’m the best auctioneer in the world, but no one knows it because ‘m a discreet sort of man.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“When the wind changes, some people build walls, others windmills”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“I’ve always thought that hell is the people you could one day become.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Taken together, these stories remind us of the true meaning of one of the most important pieces of wisdom in the Scriptures: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” This famous dictum is not a call to vengeance, as is commonly believed, but an invitation to value the small details of objects.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“After all, as Quintilian says, a hyperbolic is simply “a fissure in the relationship between style and reality.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Así son los hombres públicos, incluyendo a los curas: tienen la cabeza tan ocupada en ellos mismos que no sienten ninguna curiosidad por las vidas de los demás.”
― Valeria Luiselli, La historia de mis dientes

“Our penultimate lot, ladies and gentlemen, exudes an air of mystical melancholy. The tooth itself is crocodilian, but its aura is almost angelic. Note the curve; it is like a wing in ascent. Its owner, Mr. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, was a man of average height. His short, thin legs supported a torso, which was at once solid and svelte. His head was the size of a small coconut, and he had a slender, flexible neck. He was a pantheist.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Places and things are made up of stories.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“My luck was without equal, my life was a poem, and I was certain that one day, someone was going to write the beautiful tale of my dental autobiography. End of story.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth