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

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

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.

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.

What I want from you is simple. I want today only.If it’s laughter, I want it. If it’s pain, I want it.Whatever today holds, as long as the day holds you, I want it.I want today only.

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.

People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority