Laura Esquivel Quotes

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

“You don’t have to think about love; you either feel it or you don’t.”

“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 that hasn’t been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.”

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

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

“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn’t feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by herself in the kitchen, rather than let it be thrown away.”

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

“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 a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”

“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 simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person’s point of view.”