Laura Esquivel quotes

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter best known for her debut novel, "Like Water for Chocolate." Her work blends magical realism with Mexican culture, making her a significant figure in contemporary literature. She explores themes of love, tradition, and family through evocative storytelling. Here are 16 of her quotes:

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

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.

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

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

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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

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

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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.

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The most elementary of good manners... at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

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I like vibrant colors.

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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. (Laura Esquivel)

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught. The law of love is what one really should be learning in school, and what I want to communicate to people is that they should disobey the social rules that do not pertain to them, they should rebel against what is not personally true.

Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel

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Photo: Abril Cabrera, Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: Mexican Author
Born: September 30, 1950
Quotes count: 16
Wikipedia: Laura Esquivel

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