[...] 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.

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

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

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

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

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