Keeping Secrets Will Always Lead To Unhappiness

To Know How To Produce A Work Of Art Is To Know How To Discard The Extraneous.

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.

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

There Are Some Things In Life That Shouldn't Be Given So Much Importance, If They Don't Change What Is Essential.

You Must Take Care To Light The Matches One At A Time. If A Powerful Emotion Should Ignite Them All At Once, They Would Produce A Splendor So Dazzling That It Would Illuminate Far Beyond What We Can Normally See; And Then A Brilliant Tunnel Would Appear Before Our Eyes, Revealing The Path We Forgot The Moment We Were Born, And Summoning Us To Regain The Divine Origins We Had Lost. The Soul Ever Longs To Return To The Place From Which It Came, Leaving The Body Lifeless.