Top 50 Laura Esquivel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “La mera verdad es que la verdad no existe, todo depende del punto de vista.”

— Laura Esquivel

2. “Todo se olvida en esta vida, todo pasa al recuerdo, todo acontecimiento deja de ser presente, pierde su valor y su significado.”

— Laura Esquivel

3. “Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.”

— Laura Esquivel

4. “Necesito una respuesta en este momento, el amor no se piensa, se siente o no se siente.”

— Laura Esquivel

5. “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

6. “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 away from those people, it’s easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.”

— Laura Esquivel

7. “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”

— Laura Esquivel

8. “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.”

— Laura Esquivel

9. “Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”

— Laura Esquivel

10. “Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo.”

— Laura Esquivel

11. “La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.”

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

14. “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

15. “When you’re told there’s no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn’t you do the same?”

— Laura Esquivel

16. “The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.”

— Laura Esquivel

17. “She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn’t separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love.”

— Laura Esquivel

18. “To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.”

— Laura Esquivel

19. “Take care to chop the onion fine.”

— Laura Esquivel

20. “No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.”

— Laura Esquivel

21. “I wonder how much time had passed between the moment God said “Let there be light” and the appearance of light? Sometimes, the mere difference of a single second between one event and another can be enough to turn our lives around one hundred and eighty degrees.”

— Laura Esquivel

22. “One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?”

— Laura Esquivel

23. “Love is a verb. One demonstrates one’s love through one’s actions. And a person can only feel loved when someone else shows their love with kisses, hugs, caresses, and gifts. A lover will always promote the physical and emotional well-being of the person he loves.”

— Laura Esquivel

24. “To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.”

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

26. “No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.”

— Laura Esquivel

27. “Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone.”

— Laura Esquivel

28. “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.”

— Laura Esquivel

29. “Lo malo de llorar cuando uno pica cebolla no es el simple hecho de llorar, sino que a veces uno empieza, como quien dice, se pica, y ya no puede parar.”

— Laura Esquivel

30. “The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!”

— Laura Esquivel

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31. “Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking 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.”

— Laura Esquivel

32. “Prensar, destrozar y despellejar eran algunas de sus actividades favoritas.”

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33. “Era el producto de un trabajo artesanal que desgraciadamente estaba pasando de moda, junto con los vestidos largos, las cartas de amor y los valses.”

— Laura Esquivel

34. “The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.”

— Laura Esquivel

35. “As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn’t serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can’t be taught.”

— Laura Esquivel

36. “I like vibrant colors.”

— Laura Esquivel

37. “Those hands had rescued her from horror and she would never forget it.”

— Laura Esquivel

38. “Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don’t know. That is one of the universe’s Unknowns. It would seem that the God’s truly delight in messing things up, for in not having created a particular spot to house hatred, they have provoked eternal chaos. Hatred us forever hunting down a refuge, poking it’s nose where it shouldn’t, taking over sites reserved for others, invariably forcing out love.”

— Laura Esquivel

39. “But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.”

— Laura Esquivel

40. “Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.”

— Laura Esquivel

41. “She was passionate about knitting because it allowed her to reach a state of peacefulness, and she loved to embroider because it let her express her creativity. Both activities were liberating. They allowed her to exist outside of time.”

— Laura Esquivel

42. “What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.”

— Laura Esquivel

43. “Look ma’am, those narcos that mutilate, torture, and kill others are no longer a part of us. They’re no longer part of any family or community; they act against everyone. They are worth nothing. But when you bury a narco, you allow him to be a part of you again. He becomes dust, food, our brother once more. His body – dissolved in the earth – now sustains life again, instead of destroying it.”

— Laura Esquivel

44. “You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.”

— Laura Esquivel

45. “At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.”

— Laura Esquivel

46. “She loved to put her hands in the water and repeat her mantra: “Just for today. Just for today I will choose water over alcohol. Just for today I will allow water to cleanse me, to purify me.”

— Laura Esquivel

47. “Words have life, memory, when you hear them you travel to the past.”

— Laura Esquivel

48. “It appeared that the two of them had forgotten the most elementary rules of good manners, which tell us that at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics”.”

— Laura Esquivel

49. “Do you hear how the sand sings?”

— Laura Esquivel

50. “Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.”

— Laura Esquivel