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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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 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!

Oftentimes lies are found in those closest to you and truth in perfect strangers

I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.