Laura Esquivel Quotes

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

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 have no match in the present. -Tita

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

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 a jar in her saddlebag

there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.

I like vibrant colors.

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 sister, wouldn't you do the same?

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.

Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves