Mika

“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.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“He smiled, put his hands on the back of her neck, fingers in her hair, and leaned in to press his forehead against hers. He’d told her before that he did it to take away half her sadness, half her headache, half her nerves before her Columbia interview. Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“You expect to win my praise this way, I think. It would take more."

"Your respect, perhaps. Not your praise."

"Why would you need my respect?"

"I don't.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic