Laura Esquivel Quotes

She said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by our...

Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don't know. That ...

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the o...

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanc...

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part o...

I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it i...

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular f...

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answer...

...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seeme...

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens...

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what ...

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is change...

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

Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for thing...

What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disco...

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave i...

...a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibi...

She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner...

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just a...

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who...

Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin...

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. ...

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.