“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
Laura Esquivel
Born place: in Mexico D.F., Mexico
Born date September 30, 1950
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“He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Narcissus and Goldmund
“You know that recent Supreme Court ruling where a husband can legally murder his wife if he can prove she wouldn’t under any circumstances give him a divorce?”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Ubik
“I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Crossed
“Life moves on and so should we”
― Spencer Johnson, quote from Who Moved My Cheese?
“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, quote from Les Liaisons dangereuses
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