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“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.” (Mexican Gothic Quotes)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“Any pleasant activity must also involve the acquisition of a spouse. That is, she should never have fun for the sake of having fun but only as a way to obtain a husband.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“At the entrance there had been a painting or a mirror on a wall, and it’s oval outline was visible against the wallpaper, like a lonesome fingerprint at the scene of a crime.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“But he needed a story and she needed to tell one. So she did, until he didn’t care whether she was lying or speaking the truth.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“I do my best thinking when I’m in motion.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“I have seen the world, and in seeing it I’ve noticed people seem bound to their vices.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“In a sense all dreams foretell events, but some more clearly than others.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“It is important to maintain a sense of order in one’s house, in one’s life. It helps you determine your place in the world, where you belong. Taxonomical classifications help place each creature atop its right branch. It’s no good to forget yourself, nor your obligations.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“It seems you are determined to be difficult today. I shouldn’t be surprised. Women can be terribly mercurial.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“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
“It’s so much more fun when a gentleman offers a lady a cigarette.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“It’s the common lust of all men. He simply wants to have you, like a little butterfly in his collection. One more pretty girl.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“Like the old car that had picked Noemí up, the town clung to the dregs of splendor.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“Loyalty to the family is rewarded, and impertinence is punished. Remember that and you shall be very happy.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“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 make the mouth water.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“Our bodies hide so many mysteries and they tell so many stories without a single word, do they not?”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“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
“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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“The future, she thought, 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.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“The unattractive will not procreate. Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty. It is a means of selection.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“The world is filled with so many extraordinary wonders, isn’t it? You could spend a lifetime peering in forests and jungles and never see one tenth of nature’s secrets.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“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
“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
“You are right to think that I was grown like an orchid. Carefully manufactured, carefully reared. I am, yes, like an orchid. Accustomed to a certain climate, a certain amount of light and heat. I’ve been fashioned for a single end.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
“You like a hint of danger, but back home they wrap you in gauze, to keep you from breaking. But you’d like to break, wouldn’t you? You play with people and you wish someone would have the guts to play with you.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
