Top 380 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “It was beauty you couldn’t hold.”

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53. “We say many things when we are young. Eventually, we grow wiser.”

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

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55. “He made her forget not through arcane sorcery but with his mere presence.”

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56. “You shouldn’t do everything you want just because you can.”

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57. “To Lovecraft, a tainted past is the rotten core from which present-day horror germinates.”

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58. “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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59. “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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60. “In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between.”

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61. “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.”

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62. “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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63. “Just because there are no ghosts it doesn’t mean you can’t be haunted. Nor that you shouldn’t fear the haunting.”

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

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66. “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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67. “She longed. Not for one specific thing but for everything; she had longed for a long time. He’d made this longing worse: it followed her quietly, this awkward feeling under her skin.”

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

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

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71. “Some people are born under a lucky star, while others have their misfortune telegraphed by the position of the planets.”

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72. “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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73. “She had a knack for quiet insurrection.”

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74. “Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty.”

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75. “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.”

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76. “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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77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “You’re very silly or very brave, living in a haunted house.”

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81. “She was a spoiled rich girl who did not give a damn about me.” “A spoiled rich girl?” she said. “Neither rich nor spoiled. A girl wearing yesterday’s finery, having to live off the mercy of her father’s old friends. You have no idea what it was to be me. All the family’s expectations upon my shoulders.”

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82. “At nights, one could stand in the courtyard and look up at a rectangle of night sky and survey the stars, but in the daytime the sun bathed the ivy growing on the walls and made the decorative tiles of the fountain glisten. Light, air, and water mixed together to produce a realm of enchantment.”

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “I’m willing to make an exception for you, seeing as I have a soft spot for mythmaking.”

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

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

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

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90. “It didn’t matter if you were the Hunchback of Notre Dame, you still had a chance to romance Esmeralda.”

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91. “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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92. “You could spend a lifetime peering in forests and jungles and never see one tenth of nature’s secrets.”

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93. “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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94. “Everywhere Montgomery had been he’d spied the same misery under a different guise. In England it was in the factories, in Latin America it was in the fields. There was always someone with a little more money, a little more power, and he owned you.”

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95. “Nina had every desire to be melodramatic, to give free rein to thoughts and instincts, as in those books where people loved and lived and declared the most beautiful sentiments, but instead she nodded.”

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96. “I don’t know if I want to make up my mind now,” Casiopea said. “Take it from me. Now is always the answer.”

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “My apologies. Time and isolation do strange things. Of course, the levels of serotonin do not help,” the vampire said. “The what?” Domingo asked. “Serotonin. A neurotransmitter. The low levels in our brains make us violent, impulsive, self-destructive. It’s worse in some types than others.”

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

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