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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• Guardar secretos siempre conduce a la infelicidad y la comunicación es la clave del amor.

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  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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• 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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• [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.

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  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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• Como profesor me doy cuenta de que lo que se aprende en la escuela no sirve para mucho, que lo único que realmente se puede aprender es la autocomprensión y esto es algo que no se puede enseñar.

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  Profesor, Escuela, Yo

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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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• Debes tener cuidado de encender las cerillas de una en una. Si una emoción poderosa las encendiera todas a la vez, producirían un esplendor tan deslumbrante que iluminaría mucho más allá de lo que normalmente podemos ver; y entonces aparecería ante nuestros ojos un túnel brillante, revelando el camino que olvidamos en el momento en que nacimos, y convocándonos a recuperar los orígenes divinos que habíamos perdido. El alma siempre anhela volver al lugar de donde vino, dejando al cuerpo sin vida.

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  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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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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• "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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• Una vez más llegaría a un lugar extraño. Otra vez sería la recién llegada, la forastera, la que no pertenecía al lugar. Sabía por experiencia que tendría que congraciarse rápidamente con sus nuevos amos para evitar ser rechazada o, en casos más graves, castigada. Luego vendría la fase en la que tendría que agudizar sus sentidos para ver y oír lo más agudamente posible, de modo que pudiera asimilar rápidamente todas las nuevas costumbres y las palabras más utilizadas por el grupo del que iba a formar parte... para que, finalmente, fuera juzgada por sus propios méritos.

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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.

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  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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• La más elemental de las buenas maneras... en una reunión social no se saca el tema de personalidades, temas tristes o hechos desafortunados, religión o política.

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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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• Me gustan los colores vibrantes.

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  Color, Vibrant Colors

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• Take care to chop the onion fine.

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  Comida, Cocina, Cebolla

  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

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  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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