The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Quotes

“If she’d been a siren luring him to the bottom of the sea, he would have followed. If she’d been a gorgon he’d have let himself be turned into stone.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“She wished to be unafraid and for the world to be good. Neither thing seemed possible.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Everywhere Montgomery had been he’d spied the same misery under a different guise. In England it was in the factories, in Latin America it was in the fields. There was always someone with a little more money, a little more power, and he owned you.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“For the world is a constant compromise, a greeting of the other and of yourself.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“If she'd been a siren luring him to the bottom of the sea, he would have followed. If she'd been a gorgon he'd have let himself be turned into stone. Let him be mangled and devoured.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“When she looked in the mirror she felt as though there was an invisible crack in it, perhaps in her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“I don’t want anything to change,” she said.
“It’s inevitable.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“War is seldom fair for any party involved.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Pain must be endured, for without it there’d be no sweetness.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Maybe it was not the only thing that had broken him. The brunt of cruelty, of the world, had taken its toll and marked him. But she’d been his solace and his hope, the balm from ugliness and wrongdoings. Then she’d left him and admitted that she’d never really loved him.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Copulating with me won’t make you any more human. It’ll make you sadder, when you open your eyes and see my face instead of his. Copulating with me won’t make up for what happened in the lab, it won’t wipe away the things your father confessed, and it won’t heal him.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“As Montgomery had said, what she wanted was not to be found at the bottom of a bottle, but she had no idea where it might be.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Love at that age was a fire that sparked quickly, so it shouldn’t have surprised him when she spoke earnestly, but it still stung to hear her voice her affection with such ease. She’d known the boy for a second and a half, and already her lips curled with honeyed sweetness when she spoke his name. Give her a month and she’d be ready to press an asp to her breast if the spoiled brat ever left her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Have you ever had the chance to do evil in order to produce some good?”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“That strange dividing line inside her body, the crack that seemed to nestle at the center of her being, now felt deep and solid. A fault line, filled with dread and anger. It scared her, this capacity for strength, for violence. It also awed her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“At nights, one could stand in the courtyard and look up at a rectangle of night sky and survey the stars, but in the daytime the sun bathed the ivy growing on the walls and made the decorative tiles of the fountain glisten. Light, air, and water mixed together to produce a realm of enchantment.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“the world is a constant compromise, a greeting of the other and of yourself.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“We all have a path to travel and a fate written in the book of days.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“he remained here, he’d grow mad like Moreau, who spent his days in obsessive pursuit of a secret that could never be had.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“We all have a animal double, Englishman.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“He held that Bible up and read from it, but I don’t think he knew the words.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Have you exhausted the self-pity?”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Have you forgotten your lessons?” “I can quote scripture, too. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“In her pirate novels the women were kidnapped or met their lovers in exciting ways. To be courted implied a mundane process akin to the cooking of beans or the washing of linen.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“The problem is Mr. Darwin has found an answer, but not the proper one.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“He’d loved her because she was different from him, but in the end that was what broke them.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau