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!

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.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

You are to me, what wind is to dry leaves. The reason for me to fall, the reason for me to fly.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.