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

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

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

- Laura Esquivel

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

- 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, …

- 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…

- 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…

- Laura Esquivel

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

- Laura Esquivel