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“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
“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
“It was the house that disfigured the land.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“I have seen the world, and in seeing it I’ve noticed people seem bound to their vices.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“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.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
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