Top 30 Valeria Luiselli Quotes
#1. as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing.
Valeria Luiselli
#2. Sometimes the journey to let someone love you is the journey to loving yourself.
Courtney C. Stevens
#3. I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
Trevor Noah
#4. I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
Darrell Royal
#5. At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.
Nick Harkaway
#6. 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
#7. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.
Valeria Luiselli
#8. Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.
Valeria Luiselli
#10. There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects.
Valeria Luiselli
#11. [Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel ... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.
Edmund Morris
#12. In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe.
Valeria Luiselli
#13. I harbored the secret hope, or rather, the secret certainty, that one day I would finally turn into myself; into the image of myself I'd been elaborating for years.
Valeria Luiselli
#14. The person who walks too slowly could be plotting a crime or - even worse - might be a tourist.
Valeria Luiselli
#15. Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.
Valeria Luiselli
#16. I've always thought that hell is the people you could one day become. The most frightening ones.
Valeria Luiselli
#17. You never get used to being slotted into a giant doughnut's vagina.
Sara Wolf
#18. That's the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It's all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity.
Valeria Luiselli
#19. Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'
Berenice Bejo
#20. 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
#21. When a person has lived alone for a long time, the only way to confirm that they still exist is to express activities and things in an easily shared syntax: this face, these bones that walk, this mouth, this hand that writes.
Valeria Luiselli
#22. Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.
Valeria Luiselli
#23. I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page, inhabit it; I have to remember never to put in more than is necessary, never overlay, never furnish or adorn.
Valeria Luiselli
#24. I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money.
Margaret Mitchell
#26. Always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
Mortimer J. Adler
#28. Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:
Kresley Cole
#29. Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#30. But perhaps a person only has two real residences: the childhood home and the grave.
Valeria Luiselli
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