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

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

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

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

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 same?

"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.