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41 " She was the snake biting its tail. She was a dreamer, eternally bound to a nightmare, eyes closed even when her eyes had turned to dust. "
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic
42 " A sea roared inside her and made demands, but she waded it, she bobbed up, took a breath, and opened her eyes to the cold winter morning. Then she rose because the day was there, the world was there, and she wanted to be part of it. "
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , The Beautiful Ones
43 " Ah, there is none more fearful of thieves than the one who has stolen something, and a kingdom is no small something. "
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Gods of Jade and Shadow
44 " Look at you, like the dawn. You can't understand, of course, but one day you'll want to be new again. You'll wish to return to this moment of perfection when you were the embodiment of all promises. "
45 " It’s no good telling tales without a drink. "
46 " Fear is generous and does not exclusively lodge in the hearts of mortals. "
47 " She was but a girl from nowhere. Let the heroes save the world, save kings who must regain their crowns. Live, live, she wanted to live, and there was a way. "
48 " You’re very silly or very brave, living in a haunted house. "
49 " The things you name do grow in power, but others that are not ever whispered claw at one's heart anyway, rip it to shreds even if a syllable does not escape the lips. "
50 " I follow the direction of the wind, and I cannot be blamed if a new wind begins to blow "
51 " Our bodies hide so many mysteries and they tell so many stories without a single word "
52 " I have seen the world, and in seeing it I’ve noticed people seem bound to their vices. "
53 " Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it. "
54 " There is a point when a man may swim back to shore, but he was past it. There was nothing left but to be swallowed by the enormity of the sea. "
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Certain Dark Things
55 " Noemí, just because there are no ghosts it doesn’t mean you can’t be haunted. Nor that you shouldn’t fear the haunting. "
56 " The future could not be predicted, and the shape of things could not be divined. To think otherwise was absurd. But they were young that morning and they could cling to hope. Hope that the world could be remade kinder and sweeter. "
57 " And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did. "
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Signal to Noise
58 " if she didn’t sit down, calm herself, and close her eyes, she was going to smack the god of the dead across the face. "
59 " Take it from me. Now is always the answer. Besides, do you have anything better to do? Mope around for a decade or two?"Casiopea drummed her fingers against her skirt and chewed her lip. The dramatic poetry she'd read would have called for this and more. There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live. "
60 " In a sense all dreams foretell events, but some more clearly than others. "