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Mexican Gothic QUOTES

Mexican Gothic QUOTES

1 " The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

2 " So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom? "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

3 " Francis drove up a narrow road that climbed deeper into the mountains, the air growing rawer, the mist intensifying. She rubber her hands together. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

4 " Noemi wondered if High Place had robbed her of her illusions, or if they were meant to be shattered all along. Marriage could hardly be like the passionate romances one read about in books. It seemed to her, in fact, a rotten deal. Men would be solicitous and well behaved when they courted a woman, asking her out to parties and sending her flowers, but once they married. the flowers wilted. You didn't have married men posting love letters to their wives. That's why Noemí tended to cycle through admirers. She worried a man would be briefly impressed with her luster, only to lose interest later on. There was also the excitement of the chase, the delight that flew through her veins when she knew a suitor was bewitched with her. Besides, boys her age were dull, always talking about the parties they had been to the previous week or the one they were planning to go to the week after. Easy, shallow men. Yet the thought of anyone more substantial made her nervous, for she was trapped between competing de sires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

5 " Dark Meat, she thought. Nothing but meat, she was the equivalent of a cut of beef inspected by the butcher and wrapped up in waxed paper. An exotic little something to stir the loins and the mouth water. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

6 " You shouldn't be mad at him. Francis did explain that I'm in a house full of incestuous monsters and their toadies. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

7 " It wasn't made for love, the house.'
'Any place is made for love,' she protested.
'Not this place and not us. You look back two, three generations, as far as you can. You won't find love. We are incapable of such a thing. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

8 " Books, moonlight, melodrama. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

9 " A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

10 " It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

11 " Noemí’s father said she cared too much about her looks and parties to take school seriously, as if a woman could not do two things at once. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

12 " ...she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

13 " One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

14 " She wanted to be liked. Perhaps this explained the parties, the crystalline laughter, the well-coiffed hair, the rehearsed smile. She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but women needed to be liked or they’d be in trouble. A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

15 " The future, she thought, could not be predicted, and the shpae 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. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

16 " Marriage could hardly be like the passionate romances one read about in books. It seemed to her, in fact, a rotten deal. Men would be solicitous and well behaved when they courted a woman, asking her out to parties and sending her flowers, but once they married, the flowers wilted. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

17 " 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

18 " It’s no good telling tales without a drink. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

19 " You’re very silly or very brave, living in a haunted house. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic

20 " Our bodies hide so many mysteries and they tell so many stories without a single word "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Mexican Gothic