Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate (1989)

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

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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.

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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; 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.

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

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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?

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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!

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Anything could be true or false, depending on whether one believed it.

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