"...Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquirel. Grabe.:)
"For Tita, these words were like a fresh breeze fanning embers that had been about to die."
"She got out her handkerchief and tried to wipe these sinful thoughts from her mind as she wiped away the sweat."
"That is the way history gets written, distorted by eyewitness accounts that don't really match the reality."
"Like silent spectators to a movie, Pedro and Tita began to cry watching the stars act out the love that was denied to them."
"Surely the heat from her body, which was inflamed by love, would travel with that gaze across an infinite distance, with no loss of energy, until it landed on the star she was watching. Those huge stars have lasted millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at night after night. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night."
"The next shot is for you, and I assure you that I can shoot you before they can kill me, so it would be best for us to respect each other. If we die, no one will miss me very much, but won't the nation mourn your loss?"
"Unquestionable, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro."
"That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished."
"Anything can be true or false, depending on whether one believed it."
"...how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent. But what is decent? To deny everything that you really want?"
"She imagined the pride they felt as the tip of the first root emerged from inside of them, the humility with which they accepted the loss of their previous form, the bravery with which they accepted the loss of their previous form, the bravery with which they showed the world their new leaves."
"I know who I am! A person who has a perfect right to live her life as she pleases."
"She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag."
"Perhaps his head was full of the smoke his body had given off when it burned and just as burnt toast changes the way the whole house smells, making it unpleasant, so his smoky brain was producing these black thoughts, turning his usually pleasant words into awful ones."
"Necessity is the mother of invention, and of every position. That day it led to some of the greatest creativity in the history of the human race."
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