Laura Esquivel Quotes
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[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving…
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It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that…
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Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul…
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The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or…
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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,…
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Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in…
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[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
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Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
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there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from…
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Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
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No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
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When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her…
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Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce…
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You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
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There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal…
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a…
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