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“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“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, Like Water for Chocolate

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath