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Velvet Was the Night QUOTES

Velvet Was the Night QUOTES

1 " The world had smelled like this in the beginning, during creation, when the ocean raged and the creatures in the water multiplied, making the ocean teem with life. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

2 " How she wanted someone to care about her! A thick, destructive yearning flamed inside her chest, and a flicker of emotion must have shown on Maite’s face because he chuckled and quickly added, “It’s not love. Not like that. We broke up. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

3 " He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

4 " They were both angry at the world, that was why this was happening. It was a kiss of scorpions, both heavy with poison. Both weary too. The tension and excitement of the past few days was the kindle they required "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

5 " Maite wished she had been born in Monaco or New York. Most of the girls in the comic books she read looked like they’d never set a foot in places like the Doctores. If they had toiled in poverty, then they had been lifted to a higher plane by the fat wallet of their beloved. Cinderellas, dreaming. Maite dreamed too, but nothing came of "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

6 " Love, frail as gossamer, stitched together from a thousand songs and a thousand comic books, made of the dialogue spoken in films and the posters designed by ad agencies: love was what she lived for. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

7 " Furthermore, she had gleaned enough about sophisticated fashions from the magazines that she wouldn’t stand out in such an environment. Oh, she’d chuck away the sensible shoes and the brown jackets for something with a little more pizzazz. At a place like that some glamour wouldn’t be unexpected, would it? Just a smidgen of it. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

8 " She closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see any of that. There was such ugliness in the world. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

9 " In the end, you either fight or lie down to be trampled. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

10 " Maite understood little, but she grasped this: that beneath banal phrases and appeals to the good of the nation something dangerous simmered. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

11 " Even the fools in Tlaquepaque, with their healing crystals and their chants, believed in something. You had to be a bit afraid of a superior power. Those who weren’t were treading on dangerous soil. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

12 " He walked and let the rain kiss him. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

13 " I liked El Gazpacho. He was an okay dude. That’s why I bothered looking for him and then bothered to tell you. I could have just taken your money. El Mago is no saint, you should know that by now. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

14 " A fucker from the gutter El Mago had found and discarded, lower than El Gazpacho or the others. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

15 " She still didn’t agree that a woman should live on her own. Women didn’t leave home until they were married, but two years before, Maite had grown tired of the limits of her mother’s home and decamped for her place at the Escandón. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

16 " I joined a protest, which is enough to get you labeled as a member of a ‘criminal conspiracy.’ That’s what happened three years ago, in Tlatelolco. That’s what the president said. That all the students protesting were criminals and agitators, subversive elements. Same as always, I guess. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

17 " a member of a new generation who didn’t have to pay their respect to their fussy mothers and their irritating sisters, instead happily drinking, smoking, living it up. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

18 " As she wrote down her number, Maite wondered what would be the first thing she’d steal from Leonora. She took great care in choosing her loot. It was never anything extravagant, anything people would notice, but it must always be something interesting. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

19 " But other newspapers, and some folks—stupid protesters and their friends, and even a columnist or two who didn’t know how to keep his mouth shut—were wagging their tongues, talking about brutes who had chased them down and even shot at them. It was getting messy. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night

20 " If Rubén was alive, she promised herself she’d waste no time finding him and nursing him back to health. And then they would leave the city together. She could become a modern adelita, caring for the sons of revolution, the guerilla fighters deep in the mountains. Rubén would have scars from this night, but he would wear them proudly. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Velvet Was the Night