The Most Elementary Of Good Manners .

You Don't Have To Think About Love; You Either Feel It Or You Don't.

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.

Take Care To Chop The Onion Fine.

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.

To The Table Or To Bed, You Must Come When You Are Bid.