Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 9 quotes from Mexican Gothic book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Mexican Gothic Quotes
- The unattractive will not procreate. Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty. It is a means of selection.
- I do my best thinking when I’m in motion.
- 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.
- Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.
- Our bodies hide so many mysteries and they tell so many stories without a single word, do they not?
- 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.
- 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.
- It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.
- The future could not be predicted, and the shape of things could not be divined. To think otherwise was absurd.