Untamed Shore Quotes

“She’d always been so afraid that the land would eat her, but it was obvious now that the answer was you had to eat it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Turns out you don’t need a heart to live, after all.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Sharks haven’t changed in millions of years. They know how to survive better than we do.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Can you read and write in English?”“English, Spanish and Dutch,” she said. “My French is serviceable, too.”“What do you know,” the older man said, looking surprised. “I didn’t realize you could study that here.” It always seemed to amaze foreigners that they were not all running around in loincloths, praying to the rain gods.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Viridiana thought Manuel represented more desire than affection, and knew enough about nets and sharks to picture herself tangled in a certain placid mediocrity which terrified her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“But you had money, she thought. People can take their time when they have money. They can exhaust all roads and partake in all their whims, while people with no cash need to make decisions quickly. They are forced into making those decisions. By their parents, by their neighbours, by the whole town.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Viridiana dreamt too much. She knew it. Her father had dreamt too. Dreamt himself into pity and exhaustion.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“It always seemed to amaze foreigners that they were not all running around in loincloths, praying to the rain gods.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Sharks were clean killers. Scorpions were not. Scorpions were secretive little monsters.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“The bezoar. The serpent stone. Things hidden. Things that are not what they seem.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“But she was an extra in this film. They were the protagonists.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“This was an amulet, quite pagan, but of course the inhabitants of the household were all devout Catholics who mixed superstitions and religions with ease.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“People think Baja California is the desert, and the desert is one single, flat, lonely space. Baja California is mountain ridges, clouds of fog spreading over the land, the salt fields, the shocking sight of a valley shaded by date palms, the orchards where olives grow, the stone missions with sun-dried adobe bricks left to crumble into dust, ancient caves decorated with two-headed serpents, —and yes, the desert dotted with cacti.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“the lack of full contact had turned into a sort of frenzy until he told himself he must marry her, sleep with her, possess her. He thought of this as love.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“Not that this helped the fishermen, since they sold the meat for a peso while the merchant sold it for fifteen in the city. But people had to make a living.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“you can tell your future by looking at the path a snake leaves in the sand.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore