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Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. September 1950  •  Other names לורה אסקיבל, لائورا اسکیبل
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Works

Like Water for Chocolate
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Famous Laura Esquivel Quotes

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

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

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

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

“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”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

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

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

“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.”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

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

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

“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.”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

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