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“Marriage could hardly be like the passionate romances one read about in books. It seemed to her, in fact, a rotten deal. Men would be solicitous and well behaved when they courted a woman, asking her out to parties and sending her flowers, but once they married, the flowers wilted.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“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.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“It was the house that disfigured the land.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“...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.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
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