Laura Esquivel Quotes

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

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  Love Life, Literature, Love Literature

  Laura Esquivel, Stephen A. Lytle (2000). “Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor”, Crown Pub

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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, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

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  Light, Oxygen, Sound

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

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  Love You, Thinking, Feels

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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

  Laura Esquivel

  Communication, Keys, Keeping Secrets

  Laura Esquivel (2002). “Swift as Desire”, Random House

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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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  Love, Lust, Born

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.104, Random House

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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 energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Memories, Powerful, Lying

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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

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  Art, Produce, Know How

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• 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.

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  Teacher, School, Self

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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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  Things In Life, Essentials, Given

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.201, Random House

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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 have no match in the present. -Tita

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  Past, Smell, Sound

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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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  Desire, Messages

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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 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.

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  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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• "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.

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  Soup, Pot, Celebrate

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• 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!

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  Tears, Next, Onions

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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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 experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.

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  Order, Groups, Would Be

  Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

  Laura Esquivel

  Bed, Tables

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.5, Random House

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

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  Love Is, Fire, Soul

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.63, Random House

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

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  Hurt, Tears, Dry

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.31, Random House

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• 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.

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  Money, Passion, Successful

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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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 unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

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  Personality, Gathering, Doe

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

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  Space, Space Between

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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 sister, wouldn't you do the same?

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  Heartbreaking, Way

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• I like vibrant colors.

  Laura Esquivel

  Color, Vibrant Colors

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• Take care to chop the onion fine.

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  Food, Cooking, Onions

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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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 a jar in her saddlebag

  Laura Esquivel

  Horse, Childhood, Riding

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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