Tamara Lorr

“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, Malinche

“The time it took to prepare didn't matter, because there is no such thing as wasted time in the kitchen--rather that is where we go to recover lost time.”
― Laura Esquivel, Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and Flavor

“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