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“Ah, there is none more fearful of thieves than the one who has stolen something, and a kingdom is no small something.” (Gods of Jade and Shadow Quotes)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“As she walked she noticed that this land was eerily quiet. No wind, no rustle of the gray sand by the road. It was so quiet that she began to hear the beating of her heart, the movement of the blood through her veins; each step was like the trampling of the elephant. But this was the only noise: it all came from within her and had a disorienting effect. She paused a couple of times to sip from the gourd, and the sloshing of the water was as loud as the rapids of a river in this desert of silence.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Fate is a force more powerful than gods, a fact they resent, since mortals are often given more leeway and may be able to navigate its current.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Fear is generous and does not exclusively lodge in the hearts of mortals.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“He’d fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Her hands were hard and ugly from beating the laundry against the stone lavadero, but her mind had the worst of it. She yearned for a sliver of freedom.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“I’d like to count stars with you. I don’t know where I even got this idea, but it’s there.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“If you gave me a name, who is to say it is not mine? If I had an ordinary name, I could have an ordinary story. I could swear I first saw you in Merida, standing in the middle of the street.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“I’m willing to make an exception for you, seeing as I have a soft spot for mythmaking.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“In her spare time, she looked to books or the stars for company.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Is that why you stare at the stars?” he asked. “Are you searching for beauty or dreaming with your eyes wide open?”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“It was as if the land opened its lips and breathed again, and was made anew.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“It wasn’t fair. But there wasn’t an “after” in stories, was there? The curtain simply fell. She was not in a fairy tale, in any case. What “after” could there be?”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Keep squeezing my hand then and complaining at the same time, you’ll see some real insolence,” she sputtered.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Life may not be fair, but I must be fair.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Like many young people, ultimately she saw herself as a completely new creature, a creation that had sprung from no ancient soils.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“She could not see where they were headed, nor the place where they’d come from, and thus felt as though time and the world around her transmogrified, became unknowable; it was if she were traveling in a dream.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“She woke to an ache so deep in her bones and such copious sorrow that she thought she would not be able to rise from bed. The world outside seemed muted and gray, which she thought fitting. Had it not been gray for her since birth? The burst of colors she had experienced during the past few days was the anomaly.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“The imagination of mortals shaped the gods, carving their faces and their myriad forms, just as the water molds the stones in its path, wearing them down through the centuries. Imagination had also fashioned the dwellings of the gods.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“The train pressed forward and the glasses tinkled and he looked at her as if he’d not truly seen her before. And maybe, he had not.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“There was nothing she had in common with her grandfather: it was Martín who inherited all his virtues and his vices. Casiopea liked to believe herself a copy of her father or closer to her mother, even though she did not feel she possessed the woman’s kindness. Like many young people, ultimately she saw herself as a completely new creature, a creation that had sprung from no ancient soils.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“We are all alone in the world,” he said, and his words were the clouds when they muffle the moon at night, they resembled the earth gone bitter, choking the sprout in its cradle.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“What an entirely lovely and spiteful creature she was, her mortal beginnings forgotten, the imprint of a shell in the sand long erased.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there’s power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
“You shouldn’t do everything you want just because you can.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
