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

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

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

A guy like myself wants to make a play and be the difference, but the thing is I have to keep saying to myself to just do what I can.

America would have a disaster on trade, and America will have a disaster with open borders.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.