Top 350 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”

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52. “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

53. “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?”

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54. “Mexican Gothic is a fun romp through a trove of Gothic tropes, including a dark and gloomy house, an alluring yet dangerous man, a family with secrets, and things that go bump in the night. But it’s also a story about those other ghosts: the ones that were left like a scar on the land. Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”

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55. “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.”

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56. “I feel so alone sometimes, you have no idea. And the loneliness seems to seep into my bones and I get scared because I feel numb. Not depressed or upset: I’m a blank tape. Like someone dragged a magnet against the tape inside my brain and erased all the information. There’s nothing left to feel. I felt it all and I’ll never feel anything new again and I’ll always be alone.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

57. “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.”

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58. “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.”

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59. “Nothing matters more than money to us, the Beautiful Ones who walk down these city streets in pristine gloves and silk-lined garments. You can give yourself the luxury of love because you are not one of us. That is why you are my friend: because despite everything, at heart you remain an innocent.”

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60. “And you think you have a special power simply because my uncle thinks you possess a pretty face. But that’s not power. It’s a liability.”

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61. “In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between.”

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62. “He’d fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams. He had imagined himself a man for her, and he allowed her to see the extent of this man, and he gave her this speck of heart, which was a man, to hold for a moment before taking it back the second before it faded.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

63. “So I’ll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?” she intoned. “I doubt that’s valid.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

64. “What are your thoughts on the intermingling of superior and inferior types?” he asked, ignoring her discomfort.”

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65. “There are only two plots. You know them well: A person goes on a journey and a stranger comes into town.”

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66. “Some people are born under a lucky star, while others have their misfortune telegraphed by the position of the planets. Casiopea Tun, named after a constellation, was born under the most rotten star imaginable in the firmament.”

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67. “In the end, you either fight or lie down to be trampled.”

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68. “You truly are my friend, aren’t you?” she said. She hadn’t quite believed it, half expecting a ruse, but she didn’t think there was one. “You should know the answer by now,” he replied, but not unkindly. “It’s very difficult, in this place, to discern what’s real from what’s false.” “I know.”

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69. “Yet the thought of anyone more substantial made her nervous, for 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.”

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70. “She had a knack for quiet insurrection.”

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71. “And I am Howard Doyle, Virgil’s father. Although you’ve guessed that already.”

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72. “Both your coloration and your hair. They are much darker than Catalina’s. I imagine they reflect your Indian heritage rather than the French. You do have some Indian in you, no? Like most of the mestizos here do.” “Catalina’s mother was from France. My father is from Veracruz and my mother from Oaxaca. We are Mazatec on her side. What is your point?” she asked flatly. The old man smiled. A closed smile, no teeth. She could picture his teeth, yellowed and broken.”

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73. “Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty.”

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74. “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.”

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75. “It was not a haunting. It was possession and not even that, but something she couldn’t even begin to describe. The creation of an afterlife, furnished with the marrow and the bones and the neurons of a woman, made of stems and spores.”

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76. “Everything in High Place was gnarled and begrimed, but he’d been able to grow bright and mindful, like an odd plant that is carried onto the wrong flower bed.”

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77. “I’d like to count stars with you. I don’t know where I even got this idea, but it’s there.”

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78. “One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true.”

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79. “There is a phrase, atl tlachinolli, ‘the water that scorches the earth.’ My name means ‘water’ but it is also war.”

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80. “Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.”

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81. “He looked down when those boys went by, his hair falling over his face, and they didn’t see him, because nobody saw him. It was just like with the regular passengers; Domingo melted into the tiles, the grime, the shadows.”

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82. “Snakes, after all, have a great sense of decorum and order.”

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83. “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.”

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84. “You shouldn’t be mad at him. Francis did explain that I’m in a house full of incestuous monsters and their toadies.”

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85. “Thousands upon thousands of years ago a stone fell upon the earth. It cracked the land, left a scar. And when an event of such intensity takes place, something remains,” Loray told her, and seemed pleased in the telling. “Power, embedded in the peninsula, radiating from it. There is much magic here. In other parts of the world the ancient gods have gone to sleep, for although gods do not die, they must slumber when their devoted cease in their prayers and offerings.”

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86. “She was rendered in most vivid colors.”

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87. “Grant me a name and it will be yours and mine alone... I could be a different person. 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.”

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88. “I could have sworn, for one brief instant, that tiger was no great cat but a mighty god of death crouching above me.”

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89. “Can you read and write in English?”“English, Spanish and Dutch,” she said. “My French is serviceable, too.”“What do you know,” the older man said, looking surprised. “I didn’t realize you could study that here.” It always seemed to amaze foreigners that they were not all running around in loincloths, praying to the rain gods.”

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90. “I have seen the world, and in seeing it I’ve noticed people seem bound to their vices.”

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91. “A job, maybe,” the man said. “They call me El Mago. You know why? Because I can get people out of tight situations, like Houdini. And I can also make things appear and disappear.”

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92. “Old would have been an inaccurate word to describe him. He was ancient, his face gouged with wrinkles, a few sparse hairs stubbornly attached to his skull. He was very pale too, like an underground creature. A slug, perhaps. His veins contrasted with his pallor, thin, spidery lines of purple and blue.”

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93. “When she looked in the mirror she felt as though there was an invisible crack in it, perhaps in her.”

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94. “She wanted a fairytale and I wanted to give her that.”

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95. “In a sense all dreams foretell events, but some more clearly than others.”

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96. “Alma is the only person who has benefited from this whole thing. All these years she’s been using the magic Ewers originally invoked in those nitrate reels to keep herself young.”

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97. “She wondered if he kept a pair of calipers to measure his guests’ skulls.”

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98. “One face blended into another. She would not have been able to tell them apart even if she’d looked closely.”

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99. “I’ve never understood that. Once, twice, thrice removed. Who keeps track of such a thing? I always figure if they come to my birthday party we are related and that’s it, no need to pull out the genealogy chart.”

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100. “It’s no good telling tales without a drink.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia