Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivelis a Mexican novelist, essayist, and screenwriter who has made noted contributions to Latin-American literature. Her first novel Como agua para chocolatebecame a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1950
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
memories powerful lying
[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.
bed tables
To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.
love-you thinking feels
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
light oxygen example
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.
love lust strikes
[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
love-life literature love-literature
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
heartbreaking way
When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?
desire messages
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
order would-be phases
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
space space-between
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
communication keeping-secrets keys
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
horse childhood jars
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
personality topics facts
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.
love-is fire-of-love soul
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.