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“And she had to admit to herself that part of what kept her next to him was not just the promise of freeing herself of the bone splinter or a sense of obligation, but the lure of change, of becoming someone else, someone other than a girl who starched shirts and shone shoes and had to make do with a quick glimpse of the stars at night.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Only the living can be readers.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile

“She could not see where they were headed, nor the place where they'd come from, and thus felt as though time and the world around her transmogrified, became unknowable; it was if she were traveling in a dream.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“She'd seen drawings of Death in dusty books. It was depicted as a skeleton, its vertebra exposed, black spots on its body symbolizing corruption. That Death and Hun-Kamé seemed entirely different from each other, but now she realized they could be the same.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow