Top 350 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

152. “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.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

153. “He didn’t know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

154. “My brother’s voice was the voice of the budding flowers and the early rains.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

155. “The mirrors were supposed to be “wall art” and lend an air of class to the joint, but the results were more tacky than elegant.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

156. “Blood is the oldest coin. Blood remains.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

157. “She’d learned rebellion while muttering the rosary.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

158. “He was chained to her, to this brilliant ideal of a perfect love.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

160. “But what the lords wished was that they should not discover their names.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

161. “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

162. “Now is always the answer.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

163. “In the world of the living, one must live.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

164. “But it’s impossible to get out of this house.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

165. “Unlike European vampires, Atl could handle the sun, though it weakened her. It required too much energy to move through the city in the daytime.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

166. “There’s a second when I think it would be fine to forget myself, it would be the easiest thing in the world. But if you forget yourself once, you’ll do it twice, and thrice, and soon...”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

167. “He was attuned to Montserrat’s phases, like memorizing an almanac and knowing if it was a gibbous or waxing moon without having to glance at the sky.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

168. “Now you can be a stubborn coward and live the rest of your life inside my guest room, or maybe you can help me put an end to Ewers’s spell.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

169. “It was a thankless job that had her sometimes catching three hours of sleep on one of the couches around Antares so she could keep working through the night.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

170. “Here, in Loisail, even if she was hidden away at the moment. She existed and colored the city for him, lit it brighter than the elegant iron lampposts.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

171. “But she was an extra in this film. They were the protagonists.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

172. “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

173. “Desire was not passion and passion was not love.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

174. “The parties at the Tunons’ house always ended unquestionably late, and since the hosts enjoyed costume parties in particular, it was not unusual to see Chinas Poblanas with their folkloric skirts and ribbons in their hair arrive in the company of a harlequin or a cowboy.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

175. “It was his covetous heart, which now had focused on Antonina and aimed to consume her.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

176. “There are plenty of shining examples in the world that demonstrate love need not be a condition of a successful marriage. You might agree on this point.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

177. “Nobody can find you here.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

178. “The feeling that this was someone who devoured people, but never got his suit dirty.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

179. “She had to be good because she was pretty and young and his friend. Right?”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

180. “Often life doesn’t make sense, and if Elvis had a motto it was that: life’s a mess. That’s probably why he loved music and factoids. They helped him construct a more organized world.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

181. “Often life doesn’t make sense, and if Elvis had a motto it was that: life’s a mess.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

182. “The only thing Montserrat had done with her hair was tie it into a ponytail, but Nando was a horny dog trying to butter her up like a succulent lobster. She’d dodged enough creeps to know how to deal with this one.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

183. “You’re kidding me, right? The ‘team-building exercise’ was drinking beer in very big glasses and pinching waitresses’ behinds. I don’t need to play sexist caveman games with the boys to do my job.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

184. “Kika changed seats, pulling a chair and joining Ana at her table. Gang member, very likely, even if she seemed to dabble in unorthodox outfits. Not that Ana wanted that to be the case, but the way this conversation was going there were few other options to consider, though movie extra from a remake of Gilda might fit the bill. She had the femme fatale aura down pat.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

185. “But she liked this man’s quirks and imperfections, the lack of playboy smarts coupled with a quiet intelligence.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

186. “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

187. “They were both angry at the world, that was why this was happening. It was a kiss of scorpions, both heavy with poison. Both weary too. The tension and excitement of the past few days was the kindle they required.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

188. “She closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see any of that. There was such ugliness in the world.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

189. “Catalina had told her she expected more. True romance, she said. True feelings.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

190. “Do you think I am a dog to whom you can throw scraps?” he asked in a low voice.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

191. “He engaged in an indolent existence punctuated by the most expensive treats and drinks he could find in town.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

192. “Looking at her, he thought of smoke, of incense and altars, and the painting of a girl he’d seen in a discarded museum catalogue.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

193. “You don’t understand,” he said. “I’m the worst of friends to you. You ought to spend more time with people who are more animated than me, younger and lively. I am like a rickety, haunted house, Miss Beaulieu. Best find a new abode. I won’t be troubling you any longer.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

194. “Was she having lunch with a modern-day Robin Hood or someone more sinister? A cold-blooded killer, a kidnapper, a lurid, cartoonish monster. A villain!”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

195. “They were quiet and they were foolish, both of them, thinking they were treading with any delicacy, and that if they somehow moderated their voices they’d stop the tide of emotion. 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

196. “Have you exhausted the self-pity?”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

197. “When he talked, he did it well. He carved each sentence with a graceful assurance. Each word was a jewel.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

198. “Love is a strange thing to us. We do not revel in it. We only know hunger.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

199. “Her mystery eclipses tarnished stars we kept for wishing on. Perhaps our daughters will walk in shadow gladly, holding hunger inside them for a weapon.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

200. “All of us are daughters denied some truth or other; craving ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars against Her tongue, expiring into darkness.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia