[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

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

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

Take care to chop the onion fine.

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

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

"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.