You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

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.

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

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

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

Take care to chop the onion fine.