Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird Quotes

“She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“They love one another because they repulse one another.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Le horrorizaban los rasgos monstruosos de lo cotidiano. Esas cosas que miramos, pero no vemos, de las cuales no conocemos la verdadera esencia.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro

“ears”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Three old women are walking together. Arm in arm they weave a symbiosis outside of time.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“I learned the art of bringing laughter to those who can't stop crying.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Human beings are a mere parenthesis between two unknowns.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Human evil knows no limits.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Ella le hubiese querido mostrar todas las anotaciones que había hecho al margen del libro de Faulkner, hablarle de todas las noches en las que deseó leerle párrafos enteros a alguien,”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro

“You look at Menéndez as though you’re seeing him for the first time, and you understand that the sound of the naked, toothless body belonging to the filthy old man that he was, the sound of him breaking on the blue tiles of your patio, encased you in anarchy, in the chaos originating in the neighbors who look at you with feigned pity and a certain cordial disdain, in the police who talk to you with words that are imperative, broken, mechanical, in the world that’s oppressively civilized and atrocious.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“She stopped, as she always did when she located some object that was unchangeable but seemed alive. No one could be absolutely certain that an oval piece of ceramic wasn't alive. There was always something, a small detail, that gave her cause for doubt. She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“No querés formar parte del banquete feroz. Pero intuís que cada uno de nosotros es un lobo que, con una eternidad exquisita, devora al otro.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro

“I dislike tan people, they walk around with dead skin on their bodies.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“At the time, I didn't understand that her limitless fragility could hide an intelligence capable of determining the precise moment she would begin to ruin my life.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“The wolf will kill you. It will devour you with its thoughts, find the sweet spot to savor you. It will measure your breath, calculate the exact moment to brush your veins with its fangs, to embrace you gently with its mouth.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird