“You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.”
Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate
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Laura EsquivelOriginal title Como agua para chocolate (Spanish, 1989)
Like Water for Chocolate was published in 1989 by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita, who longs for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.
“Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.”
Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate
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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”
Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate
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