“ I also knew you wouldn't remember this trip, because you're only five years old, and our pediatrician had told us that children don't starting building memories of things until after they turn six. Wh… Valeria Luiselli
“ The following day his outline appeared in white chalk on the asphalt. Did the hand of the person who skirted the coastline of his body tremble? The city, its sidewalks: an enormous blackboard- instead… Valeria Luiselli
“ 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 e… Valeria Luiselli
“ Dios y la gente se solidarizan con las víctimas. Pero no con cualquier víctima, sino con las víctimas que se victimizan con éxito. Mi ex mujer, por ejemplo. Cuando nos divorciamos, la criolla se volvi… Valeria Luiselli
“ El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza… Valeria Luiselli
“ I... stopped acting as if I was privileged enough to worry about corporate ethics. Valeria Luiselli
“ Euphemisms hide, erase, coat. Euphemisms lead us to tolerate the unacceptable. And, eventually, to forget. Against a euphemism, remembrance. In order to not repeat. Valeria Luiselli
“ Baldy fell for Dakota. She fell for his bathtub. They began a torturous, dangerous, multilateral relationship. Valeria Luiselli
“ Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. Suppose we were inside of What would happen then?I wonder what my sister, who understand books better than life, would say if she were confronted with… Valeria Luiselli
“ New families, like young nations after violent wars of independence or social revolutions, perhaps need to anchor their beginnings in a symbolic moment and nail that instant in time. Valeria Luiselli
“ Because - how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we fi… Valeria Luiselli
“ And as beautiful and real as life feels when you’re not thinking about its consequences. Valeria Luiselli
“ 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… Valeria Luiselli
“ In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe. Valeria Luiselli
“ Caminando por una misma calle que, sospecho, es la superposición de muchas calles. Sé, además, que algunos recuerdos son elaboración posterior: fantasías labradas durante una charla... Recordar, relee… Valeria Luiselli
“ Suppose that the convenient narrative has always been to portray the nations that are systematically abused by more powerful nations as a no-man’s-land, as a barbaric periphery whose chaos and brownne… Valeria Luiselli
