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

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

[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.

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.

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

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