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

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.

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!

There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight!

Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks

The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.