Like Water for Chocolate Quotes

"You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die." (1, 22)

"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?" (1, 54)

With that meal it seemed they had discovered a new system of communication, in which Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which t...

Each year Tita prepared [quail in rose sauce] in tribute to her sister's liberation […]. (3, 205)

Tita got a terrible spanking for that, and she was forbidden to play with her sisters in her own world. (1, 9)

It wasn't easy for a person whose knowledge was based on the kitchen to comprehend the outside world. (1, 7)

"If [Pedro] intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to bother." (1, 22)

"You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die." (1, 22)

Though [Nacha] didn't know how to read or write, when it came to cooking she knew everything there was to know. (1, 4)