The Seventh Veil of Salome Quotes

“You remember your father with the eyes of a little girl. I remember him as a woman,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“You were honest with men and they ate your heart, then spat it out. You couldn't let them see the naked self beneath the mascara and rouge. You couldn't let them find you curled up and small in the middle of the bed.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“For his sins are many and deep; he rose against his kin for want of jewels and the soft skin of his brother’s wife, plunging the land into conflict and bleeding it dry.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“But there are also many expectations. From the studio, from the audience, from my mother. I’m always being watched and judged. I feel like an interloper, like this isn’t supposed to be my life.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“Someone is coming who is mightier than your emperors and your lords. Someone is coming who will not be stopped by the shield or the javelin.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“He thought her love of opera and her interest in acting were, at best, childish impulses that would fade once she was a wife and homemaker.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“Damn her uncle and his lust, damn him and his thirst for power. Yet, he was her kin, and his destruction might mean the destruction of Salome, too, for the triumph of Roman men like Pontius Pilate would mean the inevitable diminishing of her own household.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“But underneath it all there was something ugly and mean, and you really didn’t want to get too close to her. You especially didn’t want to cross Nancy Hartley. God help the person who incurred her wrath.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“know you, darling. I read that story your publicity guy placed in the papers this month. You’re supposed to be the new face of Hollywood. I suppose ethnic types are quite popular right now. Who’s that Puerto Rican they have at 20th Century Fox who’s going to be in The King and I? And there was that little Mexican who was in Vera Cruz? Sara Something,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“She was assigned to Dan Quiterio, one of the top publicists at Pacific Pictures, who was supposed to mold her image. The man decided the best course of action was to sell her as mysterious, exotic, and unattainable.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“I repeat the truth that God speaks to me. Herod Antipas has slain his brother and by laying with his brother’s wife committed incest. He sits on a stolen throne, painted in blood, his soldiers paid with pilfered gold.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“You are a barren cow who should learn to keep her mouth shut!”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“It makes you look common, honey. And the sandals! Really. Wearing sandals like you’re the maid.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“She had a nice figure, but so did many budding stars, often with the help of strategic padding. She had a pretty face, but a good makeup artist can make a siren out of a dumpy librarian. A certain elegance in the walk elevated her a tad, perhaps, but that can be learned.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“demure,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“If it had been your father, it would be much worse. You know he really doesn’t approve of these Hispanic types at all.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“The Rutlands are well respected. We have impeccable reputations. Which is why Jay can’t afford to be cavorting with you anymore.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“You have that sashay only the Latina girls have, the swinging hips.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“The one they call Jesus says he can cure diseases with a touch.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“I’m not going to love someone in fractions, and I won’t be loved in quarters or in halves. You take the whole of me, if you want it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“That's Hollywood magic: peeling, crumbling movie sets that the fire marshal declared a hazard and were set ablaze in Technicolor.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“She'd thought it would be like in the operas. That it would be passion and grandeur and magic. That she would be moved ,emotion thundering through her veins,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome