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

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.

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

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

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

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

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.