Quote by Michael Chabon

“Ultimately, the loss becomes immortal and hole is more familiar than tooth. The tongue worries the phantom root, the mind scans the heart's chambers…

— Karen Green

“Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. When your eyes meet she beams with happiness, but when you smile back she shows…

— Bauvard

“And yet, in a touching, shrunken way, she was rather pretty - a prettiness marred by her seeing to be precariously balanced on the…

— Truman Capote

“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Does this dental fantasy of yours take place in, like, 1973?”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.”

— Soupy Sales

“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”

— Ogden Nash

“Yet the little tooth contains so much of our connection to the rest of life that it is virtually impossible to understand our bodies…

— Neil Shubin

“We went into a small, windowless office crowded between two others that appeared empty. A middle-aged American woman was seated behind a metal desk.…

— Gene Wolfe

“Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality.”

— Erik Valeur

“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and…

— Madeline Miller