86 Quotes by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

It was as if the land opened its lips and breathed again, and was made anew.

Casiopea rested both hands on the chest and for a moment considered leaving well enough alone. But she was angry, and more than that, curious. What if indeed there was money locked away in there? The old man owed her something for her suffering.Everyone owed her. Casiopea inserted the key and turned the lock, and flipped the lid open.

In her spare time, she looked to books or the stars for company.

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

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

It was beauty you couldn't hold.

So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?

There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live.

She was but a girl from nowhere. Let the heroes save the world, save kings who must regain their crowns. Live, live, she wanted to live, and there was a way.