Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
“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.”
“It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”
“Noemí’s father said she cared too much about her looks and parties to take school seriously, as if a woman could not do two things at once.”
“...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.”
“So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?”
“One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true.”
“She wanted to be liked. Perhaps this explained the parties, the crystalline laughter, the well-coiffed hair, the rehearsed smile. She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but 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.”
“The future, she thought, could not be predicted, and the shpae 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.”
“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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Book Keywords:
humor, mushrooms, future, dark, kissing, hope, gothic, free-spirit, feminism, mexico, kiss, humorous-quotes, sarcasm
