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.
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't. - Laura Esquivel
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
- Laura Esquivel
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 sam… - Laura Esquivel
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 sam…
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… - Laura Esquivel
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…
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, … - Laura Esquivel
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, …
To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid. - Laura Esquivel
To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.
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 wa… - Laura Esquivel
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 wa…
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere. - Laura Esquivel
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. - Laura Esquivel
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
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… - Laura Esquivel
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…
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